---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 286kk"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "286kk"
heading: "Discussions to enhance capacity of Fund to alleviate potentially adverse impacts of Fund programs on poor and environment"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/286kk"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XV — International Monetary Fund and Bank for Reconstruction and Development"
---

# §286kk. Discussions to enhance capacity of Fund to alleviate potentially adverse impacts of Fund programs on poor and environment


The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall instruct the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) [Executive Director](/usc/22/10601.md?p=5) of the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) to seek policy changes by the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), through formal initiatives and through bilateral discussions, which will result in—

- (1) the initiation of a systematic review of policy prescriptions implemented by the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), for the purpose of determining whether the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9)’s objectives were met and the social and environmental impacts of such policy prescriptions; and
- (2) the establishment of procedures which ensure the inclusion, in future economic reform [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) approved by the [Fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), of policy options which eliminate or reduce the potential adverse impact on the well-being of the poor or the environment resulting from such [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6).

## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 339, § 55, as added Pub. L. 101–240, title III, § 302, Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2500.)