The absence of a country strategy poses challenges to project performance, Muthoo said in an interview with ET, even after expressing satisfaction over the execution of the first project his office evaluated in India. The New Development Bank, earlier called BRICS Development Bank, was set up in 2015 to finance public and private projects through loans, guarantees and equity participation.
US stocks: US market falls as hot inflation, hawkish Fed fuel rate-hike fears
US stocks closed lower after hotter-than-expected inflation data strengthened expectations of a December Federal Reserve rate hike and raised the possibility of more aggressive tightening.