PrepTest 109, Section 2, Question 3
Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator(458 more words not shown)
The passage provides specific information(6 more words not shown)
- Ahow per capita(3 more words not shown)
- Bwhat many political(12 more words not shown)
- Chow nations with(19 more words not shown)
- Dwhy human indicators(16 more words not shown)
- Ehow nations can(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Four of these topics have information behind them; one doesn't. The opening defines GNP and identifies its supporters, the middle explains its shortcomings, and the ending discusses changing national priorities. Let's check each choice against that account.
Working the answers
- A
The first sentence gives the calculation: yearly value of goods produced divided by population. This is explicitly provided.
- B
The economists think GNP per capita is the “soundest indicator” of national economic health. We know which measure they favor.
- C
A country can have less production per person while doing well on health, nutrition, and other human measures. The middle explains why the measures can diverge, and the ending says countries may thrive even when their GNP lags behind others'. That's how a lower production figure can coexist with better economic health as assessed through human conditions.
- D
GNP leaves out human conditions and can conceal how unevenly benefits are distributed. Those are reasons the measures can give different pictures.
- ECorrect
How would a nation substantially raise GNP? Change taxes? Change production policies? We aren't told. The ending discusses shifting attention away from that goal; it doesn't explain how to achieve it. Choosing which measure to prioritize isn't a method for making the GNP number rise.
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