David Potts 
Tanzanian Development 
A Comparative Perspective

Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic growth. However the extent of progress on poverty reduction and the sustainability of the development process are both open to question. In this book, prominent international observers provide a range of different perspectives on the process of development over time and the issues facing a rapidly growing African economy: political economy; agriculture and rural livelihoods; industrial development; urbanisation; aid and trade; tourism; and the use of natural resources. Comparisons are drawn with other African economies as well as other developing countries, such as Vietnam. An invaluable deep review of Tanzania’s economy and development, the book also looks at the wider implications of the research for the futureon the continent and beyond.


David Potts is Honorary Visiting Researcher at the University of Bradford and was Head of the Bradford Centre for International Development 2015-16. He worked for six years as an economist in Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture in the 1980s, has had many subsequent short-term assignments in the country and is co-editor of
Development Planning and Poverty Reduction (2003).

Daftar Isi

Introduction – Tanzanian Development: a Comparative Perspective – David Potts

The Political Economy of Tanzania 1967-2017: Reimagining the State – Andrew Coulson

Reflections on the Tanzanian Trajectory: Decline and Recovery – Michael F. Lofchie

Agricultural Development in Tanzania – Brian Van Arkadie

Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania – Dan Brockington

Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania – Olivia Howland

Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania – Vesa-Mati Loiske

Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania – Moses Emanuel Mnzava

Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania – Christine Noe

Contract Farming: Experiences from Tobacco and Sunflower – Joseph Kuzilwa and Bahati Ilembo and Daniel Mpeta and Andrew Coulson

‘We Just Sell Water – That is All We Do’: Two Cases of Small-scale Irrigation – Anna Mdee

The Industrial Development of Tanzania in Comparative African Perspective – Peter Lawrence

Competitiveness in African Manufacturing: Evidence from Tanzania – John Weiss and Hossein Jalilian

‘Good Life Never Comes Like Dreams’: Youth, Poverty and Employment in Arusha – Nicola Banks

International Aid to Tanzania – with some comparisons from Ghana and Uganda – Michael Tribe

Real Exchange Rate Changes and Export Performance in Tanzania and Ethiopia – David Potts and Kifle Wondemu

Economic Leakage as a Constraint on Tourism’s Effective Contribution to Local Economic Development in Tanzania – Faustin Kamuzora

Economic Leakage as a Constraint on Tourism’s Effective Contribution to Local Economic Development in Tanzania – Julia Jeyacheya

Extractive Industry Revenues and their Expenditure in Local Government Authorities: The Case of the Gold Service Levy in Geita District Council – David Potts

Extractive Industry Revenues and their Expenditure in Local Government Authorities: The Case of the Gold Service Levy in Geita District Council – Honest Prosper Ngowi

Tentang Penulis

Dan Brockington is Professor and Director of the Sheffield Institute of International Development at the University of Sheffield. He is author of Fortress Conservation (James Currey, 2002), and, with Stefano Ponte, co-edited The Green Economy in the Global South (2017). His research covers the social impacts of conservation, relationships between capitalism and conservation, the work of media and celebrity in development and long term livelihood change in East Africa. He has worked mainly in Tanzania and also South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India as well as conducting global overviews of the social impacts of protected areas, media and conservation and continental wide examinations of the work of conservation NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa.