§ 262p-4f. — Assistance to countries to develop statistical assessment of wellbeing of poor.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 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.
