Prepared By:Angelica Joy E. Castro

The Long Agony of the Congo

Prepared By:Angelica Joy E. Castro

BSEd Social Studies

Capital

Capital:Brazzaville

Miserable Poverty ???

who played the roles of governors of different parts of the kingdom

King Afonso I Elite

central to the economyused by the elite to supply their own plantations

In order to reduce the incidence of plunder and to escape the reach of slave traders.

Inclusive Labor Market- people can choose their occupation or job in ways that are so crucial for a prosperous economy.

the same pattern of economic institutions, incentives, and performance reproduced itself.

Congo experienced almost unbroken economic decline and poverty.

its citizens still lack the economic institutions that create the basic incentives that make a society prosperity.

Extractive Economic Institution