22 U.S.C. § 262p-4a : US Code - Section 262P-4A: Loan programs to reduce economic dependence on illicit narcotics

Search 22 U.S.C. § 262p-4a : US Code - Section 262P-4A: Loan programs to reduce economic dependence on illicit narcotics

(a) Findings
The Congress finds that -
(1) the illicit narcotics epidemic currently afflicting the
United States represents a direct threat to the well-being of
every United States citizen;
(2) every effective means must be pursued to reduce the foreign
production and subsequent importation into the United States of
illicit narcotics;
(3) the multilateral development banks can play an integral
role in efforts to control the production of illicit narcotics;
(4) producer country narcotics eradication programs will not be
effective unless such programs provide an economic alternative to
the production of narcotics;
(5) efforts to address the illicit narcotics epidemic through
production control are doomed to failure unless greater effort is
applied to curb use of and demand for illicit narcotics; and
(6) the appropriate role for the multilateral development banks
in the "War Against Drugs" is through coordinating and financing
alternative economic opportunities in producer and trafficking
countries.
(b) Loan programs to reduce economic dependence on illicit
narcotics
The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States
Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development and the United States Executive Director of the Inter-
American Development Bank to initiate discussions with other
executive directors of such institutions and to advocate and
support the creation, within such institutions, of specific country
lending programs and policies (including crop substitution,
creation of roads conducive to the expansion of markets for licit
goods, other infrastructure development measures such as
development projects generating employment, agricultural extension
assistance, and region-specific development plans) which are
particularly oriented to reducing or eliminating the economic
dependence of regions of borrowing countries known to be areas in
which illicit narcotics are produced or trafficked, on such
production and trafficking.
(c) Coordination among assistance programs designed to reduce
economic dependency on illicit narcotics
In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the
United States Executive Director of the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development and the United States Executive
Director of the Inter-American Development Bank to encourage such
institutions to provide coordination among other multilateral and
bilateral assistance programs designed to reduce the economic
dependence of regions of borrowing countries known to be areas in
which illicit narcotics are produced or trafficked, on such
production and trafficking.