Is it even possible for a nation which truncates the free flow of information because of its authoritarian/totalitarian tendencies to achieve a first world economic status and income? Has that ever happened before in the post war period as economies became more information based and agile and supple?
South Korea was a military dictatorship and Taiwan an authoritarian one-party state with permanent martial law when they made the transition to a first world economy.
Not really both were dirt poor when their dictatorships ended, in fact South Korea only overtook a North Korea a few years before.
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