and a list of the countries whose requests for such 
debt cancellation are under consideration. 
‘‘(b) PROMOTION
OF EQUITABLE BURDEN SHAR-
ING.—In order to promote equitable burden sharing by bi-
lateral, multilateral, and private creditors, the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall commence immediate efforts to en-
sure that such creditors draw upon their own resources 
to finance debt reduction to the extent possible without 
diverting funds from other high-priority poverty alleviation 
programs. 
‘‘(c) ELIGIBLE POOR COUNTRY DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘eligible poor country’ means Angola, 
Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Bu-
rundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, 
Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethi-
opia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, 
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Lao PDR, Liberia, 
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozam-
bique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, 
Philippines, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and 
Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, 
Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zambia, but not if— 
‘‘(1) the government of the country has an ex-
cessive level of military expenditures;
‘‘(2) the government of the country has repeat-
edly provided support for acts of international ter-
rorism, as determined by the Secretary of State 
under section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration 
Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)), or section 
620A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2371(a)); 
‘‘(3) the government of the country is failing to 
cooperate on international narcotics control matters; 
‘‘(4) the government of the country (including 
its military or other security forces) engages in a 
consistent pattern of gross violations of internation-
ally recognized human rights; or 
‘‘(5) in the case of Haiti, the government of the 
country has not been elected through free and fair 
elections.’’. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PRO-
GRAMS. 
Title XVI of the International Financial Institutions 
Act (22 U.S.C. 262p—262p–8) is further amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1627. PROHIBITION OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT 
PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION
OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT 
CONDITIONS.—In order to promote human and economic
development and poverty alleviation in eligible poor coun-
tries (as defined in section 1626(c)), the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall commence immediate efforts within the 
Paris Club of Official Creditors, as well as the Inter-
national Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), and 
the other international financial institutions (as defined 
in section 1701(c)(2)), to ensure that the provision of debt 
cancellation to the countries is not conditioned on any 
agreement by such a country to implement or comply with 
policies that deepen poverty or degrade the environment, 
including any policy that— 
‘‘(1) implements or extends user fees on pri-
mary education or primary health care, including 
prevention and treatment efforts for HIV/AIDS, tu-
berculosis, malaria, and infant, child, and maternal 
well-being; 
‘‘(2) provides for increased cost recovery from 
poor people to finance basic public services such as 
education, health care, or sanitation; 
‘‘(3) would have the effect of increasing the cost 
to consumers with incomes of less than $2 per day 
for access to clean drinking water through—
‘‘(A) decreased public subsidy for water 
supply, treatment, disposal, distribution, or 
management; 
‘‘(B) reduced intrasectoral or intersectoral 
subsidization of residential water consumers 
with incomes of less than $2 per day; 
‘‘(C) reduced government ability to regu-
late; or 
‘‘(D) mandated privatization of water; or 
‘‘(4) undermines workers’ ability to exercise ef-
fectively their internationally recognized worker 
rights, as defined under section 526(e) of the For-
eign Operations, Export Financing and Related Pro-
grams Appropriations Act, 1995 (22 U.S.C. 262p– 
4p). 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL REPORTS TO THE CONGRESS.—Not 
later than December 31 of each year, the President shall 
submit to the Committees on Financial Services and on 
International Relations of the House of Representatives 
and the Committees on Foreign Relations and on Bank-
ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report, 
which shall be made available to the public, on the activi-
ties undertaken under this section, and other progress