How Blockchain Could Contribute to Ending Poverty in All Its Forms

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
11 min readSep 10, 2019
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Technological advancements have reduced global poverty significantly in the past 100 years. Although many people have been able to leave poverty due to this, however, still more than 1.3 billion people live in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as having less than $1.25 to spend every day. There are a wide variety of causes for poverty, which differ per country, but…

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Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP

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