More than 80 percent of Congolese remain the Congo was ranked forty-eight out of fifty-four below the $1.25/day poverty line, and the government countries, below such catastrophes as Zimbabwe, failed to meet any of the Millennium Development and ahead only of the worst instances of state failure, Goals in 2015. [...] But the government commissioners” to run the new provinces, though such has passed few of the laws necessary to implement a position was unheard of in decentralization laws; decentralization properly and has fallen well short then, had the Supreme Court endorse the decision of transferring sufficient resources to the provinces. [...] That transition, in turn, followed in the steps Linked to this habit of sowing confusion is the tendency of a multi-year Inter-Congolese Dialogue, which re- of the regime simply not to do anything, either for lack hashed many of the questions addressed in 1992-94 13 of will or capacity. [...] No other recommendations from the national often relies on the United Nations Organization consultation were implemented, despite the creation of Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the a follow-up committee headed by the presidents of the Congo (MONUSCO). [...] Moreover, the efforts of tax agents appear largely targeted at the weakest and poorest segments 14 For a cogent development of this argument, and an analysis of the of society, while richer taxpayers often negotiate government’s unwillingness to resolve the political roots of these crises, see Hugo de Vries, Going around in Circles: The Challenges of Peacekeeping and Stabilization in the Democrati.
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