This chapter focuses on the determinants of the volume of savings. Savings not only allow for growth in income and increases in consumption, but also for the smoothing of consumption in the presence of various uncertainties. Choices by individuals and families about their savings are one set of...

In raising revenues, governments of poor countries affect farm gate prices for export crops. Because agriculture is dispersed, interventions have spatial effects, leading to an integrated analysis of taxation, marketing, and transportation. Policies to be used singly or together include land,...