Folks, Australia is seeing the first recession in 30 years and there's a full generation of working citizens who have never experienced one. This matters for the next time someone tells you about the superior economic management of "Benevolent Autocrats".
Australia is also a democracy and has solid institutions in both the public and private sectors. To state it differently, its politics and economy are liberalized.
Back to Kenya, the people who are wont to claim that "Benevolent Autocrats" create faster economic development have a direct structural approach to public affairs. In the main, they tend to be engineers and some lawyers who have benefited immensely from state largesse.
The lesson is, people who think that the "economy" is a machine or thing tend to also believe that there are specific dials that the one leader can manipulate and get that economy going, and s/he should not be bothered with critiques or democratic checks.
