shasadou wrote:
The latest report by the Global Initiative for Poverty Reduction (GIPR) has shown that around the world, average incomes for people living below the poverty line has increased 6% during the last five years. However, average incomes for people living at or above the poverty line has increased 13.4% during this time. Thus, in real world terms, there has been no real improvement in the standard of living for the very poor.
Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the argument above?
A. GIPR considers the receipt of charitable donations to be a form of income.
B. During the last five years, the cost of medicine for people living below the poverty line has increased 6%.
C. The number of people who are below the poverty line has increased by 7.2% over the last five years.
D. The cost of food in areas where there is great poverty has not changed much during the last five years.
E. Six years ago, GIPR instituted a program to provide clean drinking water to people living in poverty.
Hi,
lets see what the paragraph tells us..
the average income of those below poverty line has increased by 6% and others by 13.4%. Yet the standard of living has not improved.
what we have to do?
STRENGTHEN it..
What should come in the mind straightway....
If increase in income has not led to improvement in standard of living, then the only reason is this 6% has not offset the increase in prices in these 5 years..
lets see the choices..
A. GIPR considers the receipt of charitable donations to be a form of income.
out of contextB. During the last five years, the cost of medicine for people living below the poverty line has increased 6%.
CORRECT but only because no other choice is better.
here it tells us that the prices of medicine have gone up by 6%, thus eating into the increase in income...
Only PROBLEM is we are just talking of one aspect of measuring standard of living,. it may be possible that everything else has become cheaper..
we go by what is availC. The number of people who are below the poverty line has increased by 7.2% over the last five years.
I could have gone for it, had it said this 7.2% have just fallen to th etop of the category from Above poverty line. this would result in increase in average income of all because of this particular lot..
BUT does not affect the argument in its present stateD. The cost of food in areas where there is great poverty has not changed much during the last five years.
this would rather weaken itE. Six years ago, GIPR instituted a program to provide clean drinking water to people living in poverty.
out of context and @VeritasPrep, the choice C has to be picked up only because of compulsion.
In reality, it cannot be said to strengthening it.
Although there have been few earlier instances where there has been no response from you and other institutes when going wrong, I would still ask you to justify or change the wordings. You all are supposedly good institutes but Every one can make mistakes. lets not give/teach wrong reasoning to students using this platform..