The finance minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo longs for the days when his country was pushing forward as an African industrial hub.
“In this country, we made batteries for our vehicles; we used to make televisions, and exported them?.?.?.?we produced vehicles here [that] we exported,” says Nicolas Kazadi, the minister and a former central bank official of the mineral-rich country.
“All of that we lost” in the 1980s, he laments, following “complete plundering, political instability” and “macroeconomic problems”.
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