National Development Banks are subject to a conflict that is inherent to their historical formation and, therefore, extremely hard to overcome. NDBs were created as government’s vessels of development policies, functioning as proxies to mobilize expertise and financial resources to invest in specific projects with the expectation of gains in welfare—employment generation, infrastructure creation, industrial development, among others. As discussed in more detail in chapter two, such investments generally involve a significant degree of uncertainty and are extremely risky, which makes them highly unattractive for private financiers.