---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 283z–10"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "283z–10"
heading: "Focus on low-income areas of Latin America and Caribbean"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/283z-10"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XII — Inter-American Development Bank"
---

# §283z–10. Focus on low-income areas of Latin America and Caribbean


The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall direct the United States Executive Director of the Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) an increased focus on the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and on poorer areas of better off countries, and to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) programs conducted by the Multilateral Investment Fund, particularly in targeting low-income countries and populations, working with nongovernmental organizations and training and assisting former combatants from civil conflicts in Latin America.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–147, § 38, as added Pub. L. 103–306, title V, § 526(f), Aug. 23, 1994, 108 Stat. 1634.)