; Whereas the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs indicates that in September 2015, major gaps still persisted in development aid monetary flows to the least developed countries and in eliminating trade barriers for developing countries; Whereas, additionally, many people could not access essential medicines—generic medicines were available on average in 58 percent of public sector facilities—and only 32 per 100 citizens in developing countries had access to the Internet at affordable prices; Whereas the World Bank estimates that in 2015, 767 million people across the globe were experiencing extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day; Whereas according to the United Nations Development Program’s 2016 Human Development Report more than 1.5 billion people (across 102 countries examined in the report) live in multidimensional poverty according to the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), an indicator which provides a comprehensive picture of severe deprivations common to poor households including in health, education, and standard of living; Whereas the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that the number of undernourished people in the world has been on the rise since 2014 and increased to 821 million in 2017; Whereas the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat has indicated that by 2050, the cost of adapting to global climate change in developing countries could amount to anywhere between $280 and $500 billion annually; Whereas, in 2017, the United States was in 22nd place behind most industrialized nations in official development assistance funding as a percentage of gross national income (GNI), totaling $35.2 billion and representing 0.18 percent