and called it the Congo Free State. He was personally its proprietor, with the Belgian government just an onlooker. Four years later, with another sleight of hand, the King managed to get a high-level ...

We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo Free State to examine the causal effects of this form of economic organization on development. We find ...

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In addition to the continent being divided up amongst European countries, King Leopold II was given the Congo Free State as his own personal possession. The Congo Free State is now known as the ...

"In Congo, we have a weak state or a non-state ... domestically and muzzling the opposition in elections that are not free or fair, Western countries have often tolerated the autocrat.