Not really. There have been plenty of dictatorships where most people have been well fed. The fiscal policies of dictatorships have been all over the place from lax where goodies have been distributed liberally to keep various groups happy to austere like that of Ceauscescu's Romania. He gave priority to Romania being debt free.
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Right - but I never said there is a one fits all solution to dictatorship ;)
It depends on the power distribution.