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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · provide for increased participation by the United States in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, · Sec. 1603

Sec. 1603. **[**[22 U.S.C. 262p–2](/us/usc/t22/s262p–2)**]**

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## Sec. 1603 **[**[22 U.S.C. 262p–2](/us/usc/t22/s262p–2)**]** ###
(a)The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directory of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association to initiate discussions with other directors of such Bank or Association to propose that— ####
(1)in carrying on the activities of the Bank or Association, the Bank or Association take such steps as may be necessary to increase access for the poor people of a borrowing country to formal sources of credit; and ####
(2)the Bank or Association include a requirement in all appropriate project and nonproject agreements, as a condition for assistance under such agreements, that the borrowing country identify and remove unreasonable legal and regulatory barriers to— #####
(A)the establishment or operation of organizations which extend credit; and #####
(B)the provision of credit to microenterprises for small scale economic activities. ###
(b)The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directors of the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank to initiate discussions with other directors of the respective banks and to propose that each such bank— ####
(1)examine the Program for the Financing of Small Projects of the Inter-American Development Bank and the steps taken by such bank to link the Program to the mainstream operation of the bank; and ####
(2)explore ways and means to establish similar program within the respective banks to provide credit to microenterprises for small scale economic activities. ###
(c)Each annual report to the Congress by the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies shall describe the status of the microenterprise credit promotion activities of each of the institutions referred to in subsection
(a)or (b).
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**[**[22 U.S.C. 262p–2](/us/usc/t22/s262p–2)**]**
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