The Eurasian Development Bank has presented the new study, which formulates the idea of a Eurasian transport framework and assesses the potential of the International North—South Transport Corridor (INSTC) against the backdrop of new opportunities.

Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.