
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 2, 2001 and January 28, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC262p-4f]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
Sec. 262p-4f. Assistance to countries to develop statistical 
        assessment of well-being of poor
        

(a) Findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) improvement in the capacity of developing countries to 
    measure and monitor regularly the nutritional and physical well-
    being of the poorest 40 percent of the population of each of such 
    countries is essential to the development of policies to reduce 
    absolute poverty;
        (2) internationally accepted statistical indicators that measure 
    reliably the extent of absolute poverty and identify the location 
    and characteristics of the poor are being developed and refined to 
    guide policy formulation and target assistance to the poor;
        (3) such guidance by indicators is, however, not able to be used 
    in some developing countries, especially the poorest countries, due 
    to the woeful unavailability of statistical data;
        (4) the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 
    and the International Development Association have the technical and 
    financial capability to assist borrowing country governments to 
    develop such statistical measurement capabilities for social 
    indicators necessary for the design and monitoring of poverty-
    reduction policies for such governments;
        (5) availability of social indicator data is also essential to 
    the work of such institutions, particularly in monitoring the impact 
    of structural adjustment lending on the poor; and
        (6) availability of such indicators will also facilitate the 
    measurement of progress in the alleviation of poverty by other donor 
    agencies, public and private.

(b) Assistance to countries to develop statistical assessment of well-
        being of poor

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States 
Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development and the International Development Association to advocate 
and support, as an immediate priority, assistance by such institutions 
to borrowing country governments to develop appropriate statistical 
measures for assessing the physical well-being of the poor, by sex and 
age, by using such indicators as mortality, health, education, and 
nutrition, as well as wealth and income, and maintain and publish such 
indicators on an ongoing basis.

(Pub. L. 95-118, title XVI, Sec. 1611, as added Pub. L. 100-461, title 
V, Sec. 555, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2268-36.)

                          Codification

    Section 1611 of Pub. L. 95-118 is based on section 11 of H.R. 4645, 
One Hundredth Congress, as reported Sept. 28, 1988, and enacted into law 
by Pub. L. 100-461.


                               Definitions

    The definitions in section 262p-5 of this title apply to this 
section.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 262p-4h of this title.
