How Did Congo Affect The Third World

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Congo is one of many states what allows other country to push them around. At the beginning of the late 1800’s, Congo would start to go through many changes such as development, modernization, colonization and so on. Not only were European countries making their way into Congo, their own leaders made their small powered economy either a little better or much worse. With these changes happening for the next century, it caused numerous short term and long term effects on this Third World country.
As a member of the Global South, Congo was doing pretty decent for a short period of time as Belgium first arrived in the late 1800’s. New technology from developing countries arrived to Congo which included the development of schools and free health

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