The United States Government, in connection with its voice and vote in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Bank, and the African Development Bank, shall promote the development and utilization of light capital technologies, otherwise known as intermediate, appropriate, or village technologies, by such international institutions as major facets of their development strategies, with major emphasis on the production and conservation of energy through light capital technologies.
Pub. L. 95–118, title VIII, § 80191 Stat. 1071Pub. L. 97–35, title XIII95 Stat. 743(, , ; , §§ 1342(c), 1371(b)(1), , , 746.)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
Pub. L. 97–351981— redesignated subsec. (a) as entire section, inserted reference to African Development Bank, and struck out subsec. (b) which related to an annual report to Congress on progress toward achieving goals of this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1981 Amendment
Pub. L. 97–35section 1372 of Pub. L. 97–35section 290i of this titleAmendment by effective , see , set out as an Effective Date note under .
Effective Date
section 1001 of Pub. L. 95–118section 282i of this titleSection effective , see , set out as a note under .