(06-07-2019, 11:04 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(06-07-2019, 10:52 AM)mikesez Wrote: I wouldn't make any of those assumptions.
Mexico's motivations are opaque and many of its officials are corrupt.
Regardless of that, I think we can say that if someone is actively doing something, and you want them to stop, you give a punishment.
If someone is passively failing to do something, shame could work, but cash money usually works best.  Punishment just creates ill-will in that case.
A couple of years ago, the EU paid Turkey to start trying to keep Syrian refugees in their country  rather than letting them continue to Europe.  And it  worked! If you want someone  to do something for you, that will cost them money, that is not necessarily in their own interest, offer to help pay.

You want to pay them to induce them to do what they should be doing in the first place?  So if a kid refuses to do his chores, his parents should double his allowance?