Authoritarian regime for economic prosperity? Not even a little bit will work in the long run

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The call for dictatorship in late 1960s

Four-and-a-half decades ago, the erudite and then influential Buddhist priest, Rajakeeya Panditha Venerable Henpitagedara Gnanasiha Thero, suggested in a book in Sinhala on the theme of dictatorship that Ceylon, as the country was known at that time, should establish a dictatorship under a benevolent ruler. The objective was to deliver prosperity and enable the country to regain its former glories.

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Authoritarian regime for economic prosperity? Not even a little bit will work in the long run

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