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Despite the best attempts of proponents of socialism and of free market trade,

A) Mexico is still pretty much out of the loop, having been excluded from NATFA.
B) Africa, even more than other areas, has continued to sink deeper into poverty and misery.
C) only South Africa on the African continent is having any success at all in raising their standard of living.
D) only a handful of countries in the world have a decent average per capita income for their people.
E) the situation of countries considered in the group of have-nots is improving only minutely.