This article presents and analyses how Tanzania, a country on the global “periphery” with a natural resource sector dominated by capital from the Global North, has thus far failed to transform its mineral wealth into sustained economic development. Using Immanuel Wallerstein’s “world systems theory” as the theoretical framework, we exemplify how the “core” exploited gold reserves in the 1990s and into the new century – and what techniques and mechanisms (e.g. asymmetry of information, imposition of inadequate management structures) it now currently uses to develop the nascent gas sector to its advantage. Scrutinising actions undertaken by the Tanzanian president to concentrate power, root out corruption, and to stand up to profit-maximising foreign corporations – or what we call the “Magufuli effect” – as way of illustration, we also demonstrate how Tanzania is trying to change its role within the international division of labour and how the core attempts to maintain the status quo meanwhile.

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大卫与歌利亚：坦桑尼亚努力对抗外国天然气公司

本文介绍并分析了坦桑尼亚这个位于全球“边缘”的国家，其自然资源部门以来自全球北方的资本为主导，迄今为止未能将其矿产财富转化为持续的经济发展。以伊曼纽尔·沃勒斯坦的“世界体系理论”为理论框架，我们举例说明了“核心”在 1990 年代和进入新世纪时如何开采黄金储备——以及它采用了哪些技术和机制（例如信息不对称、施加不适当的管理结构）现在目前用于开发新兴天然气部门以发挥其优势。仔细审视坦桑尼亚总统为集中权力、铲除腐败和对抗追求利润最大化的外国公司——或我们所说的“马古富力效应”——所采取的行动，作为例证，