---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 262g–1"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "262g–1"
heading: "Targeting assistance to specific populations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/262g-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
---

# §262g–1. Targeting assistance to specific populations

- (a) **Congressional findings—** The Congress finds that there is a need for concerted international efforts to deal with the problems of malnutrition, low life expectancy, childhood disease, underemployment, and low productivity in developing countries.
- (b) **Assistance to poorest populations—** The Congress notes with approval that the Inter-American Development Bank, under the terms of its Fifth Replenishment, has adopted the target that 50 percent of its lending benefit the poorest groups and has developed a usable methodology for determining the proportion of its lending which benefits such groups.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–118, title XI, § 1101, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title XIII, § 1361(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 745.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 13, 1981, see section 1372 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 290i of this title.