What if the dictator wants poverty?

Oh God. I thought we were done with the development first crowd. Apparently I was wrong. The latest comes from Philip Auesrwald at The Coming Prosperity. Auesrwald approves of the priorities in Presidential Study Directive 7, the DOA NSC development policy directive:

“broad-based growth” is listed before “democratic governance.” What does that mean? It means that the people who wrote this draft get it: expanded economic opportunity precedes democratic change. Both together lead to increased prosperity.

OK Prof, exam time. What do you do when the government doesn’t want growth? What about when you need democracy in order to eat? I guess the good Prof would tell us just to give into the dictator.