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''Human rights - sustainability - equality.''
''Blockchain''


The Matthew effect is a pattern in which financial inequality - and many other differences in advantage between people - tend to widen over time.
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Those who begin with more advantage become relatively even more advantaged over time.
Ripple payment protocol.


Similarly, disadvantaged people become increasingly disadvantaged over time.


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The Matthew effect is sometimes summarised as "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
The company that developed the Ripple payment protocol.


The term originates from the quotation in the Gospel of Matthew in the Christian Bible, "... to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."
 
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The ripple cryptocurrency.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Diversity]]
* [[Altcoin]]
* [[Equality]]
* [[Blockchain]]
* [[Equality and Human Rights Commission]]
* [[Cryptocurrency]]
* [[Equity]]
* [[Ripple payment protocol]]
* [[Financial wellbeing]]
* [[SWIFT gpi]]
* [[Government Equalities Office]]
* [[Human rights]]
* [[Inequality]]
* [[Just transition]]
* [[SDG 10]]
* [[Sustainable Development Goals]]
* [[UK Equality Act 2010]]
* [[United Nations]]
* [[Wellbeing]]
 
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Revision as of 08:55, 6 January 2018

Blockchain

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Ripple payment protocol.


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The company that developed the Ripple payment protocol.


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The ripple cryptocurrency.


See also