A major U.S. motive for negotiating a free-trade agreement with Mexico was
a. to gain increased access to Mexico's huge oil reserves
b. to achieve ultimately political union with Mexico
c. as a stepping-stone to the formation of a free-trade bloc in the whole Western Hemisphere
d. to appease Canada
e. to appease GATT
A
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Between 1970 and 2010, the poverty rate in East Asia declined dramatically from about 60 percent to less than 1 percent, while the poverty rate in Sub-Saharan Africa decreased from 40 percent to only 24 percent. The main reason for this is that
A) The countries of East Asia have progressive income tax systems. The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa all have regressive income tax systems. B) Governments in East Asia increased transfer payments to poor families over this period of time. The governments of Sub-Saharan Africa had practically no transfer payment programs from 1970 to 2010. C) the population growth rate decreased in East Asia and increased in Sub-Saharan Africa. D) East Asia experienced higher economic growth than Sub-Saharan Africa.
Nash equilibria are stable because
A) they involve dominant strategies. B) they involve constant-sum games. C) they occur in noncooperative games. D) once the strategies are chosen, no players have an incentive to negotiate jointly to change them. E) once the strategies are chosen, no player has an incentive to deviate unilaterally from them.