Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§284w Multilateral Debt Relief

Title 22 › CHAPTER 7 — INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › SUBCHAPTER XIII — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION › § 284w

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the Treasury Secretary to give up to $356,000,000 from the United States to the International Development Association for debt relief during its fifteenth replenishment, if Congress provides the money. The money can be appropriated with no fiscal year limit and must not change funding that existed on June 24, 2009. Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative — the G8 proposal from the June 11, 2005 Finance Ministers’ Communique, reaffirmed July 8, 2005.

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Title 22, §284w

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(a)Authorization of contribution

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contribute, on behalf of the United States, not more than $356,000,000 to the International Development Association for the purpose of funding debt relief under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative in the period governed by the fifteenth replenishment of resources of the International Development Association, subject to obtaining the necessary appropriations and without prejudice to any funding arrangements in existence on June 24, 2009.

(b)Appropriations

In order to pay for the United States contribution provided for in subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, not more than $356,000,000 for payment by the Secretary of the Treasury.

(c)Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative

In this section, the term “Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative” means the proposal set out in the G8 Finance Ministers’ Communique entitled “Conclusions on Development,” done at London, June 11, 2005, and reaffirmed by G8 Heads of State at the Gleneagles Summit on July 8, 2005.

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22 U.S.C. § 284w

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110