Adviser to the Prime Minister for Private Industry and Investment Salman F. Rahman has urged the US government to provide preferential market access of Bangladeshi products to the US market. He also sought enhanced US investment in manufacturing and technology transfer, and International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) funding for infrastructural development. Rahman underscored business-to-business and people-to-people contacts as the key elements for enhanced economic cooperation between the two countries, said the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington D.C. on Friday. He reiterated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s earlier offer of dedicated Economic Zone for the US investors. Also read: Dhaka interested to receive US investment from DFC for infrastructure opportunities The adviser also encouraged the US IT companies to invest in the Hi-Tech Parks by taking advantage of the large pool of freelancers in Bangladesh. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam stated that continuity of coherent policies under the visionary leadership of Hasina was the key to Bangladesh’s tremendou socioeconomic progress during the past 13 years. They discussed the issues at the second high-level economic consultation between Bangladesh and the United States held at the US Department of State in Washington D.C on Thursday.