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Planministeriet holdt til i en bygning fra den tyske kolonitid
else med deres økonomiske planlægning, var den tysk-amerikanske økonom, professor
Wolfgang Stolper, som i en artikel 1) skrev: ”The basic problem of development planning
is the organization of resources for growth…The problem which development
planners face in underdeveloped countries is four-fold. First they frequently lack the
signalling system which a well functioning market provide; secondly they also lack the
institutions by means of which ideas that might crystallize can be put into practice;
thirdly in underdeveloped countries there does not exist a sufficient number of
people who can take the place of even a crudely working price system; and fourthly
basic information of a technical sort, particularly with respect to agriculture, is frequently
not there, or is available only in the form which it is not usable..”
Han tilføjede advarende, men, som tiden skulle vise, temmelig forgæves: “Experience
in many countries indicates that it would be fatal to ignore the price mechanism…
And it is not a realistic alternative to say that a government can take the place of a
supposedly non-existent entrepreneur class.”
En af den tids populære økonomiske planmodeller, som også lå bag den første tanzanianske
femårsplan, var den såkaldte Harrod-Domar model. Den går kort fortalt ud
1) Wolfgang Stolper: Comprehensive Development Planning, East African Economic Review, vol. 1, 1964
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