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10 Sep 2020, 04:11
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The passage talks about national and regional indicators only. When the question says "these" indicators (national and regional), you cannot assume that it could be talking about a more comprehensive indicator.
Only option (B) is correct.
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18 Oct 2020, 01:53
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Can anyone explain why D is the correct choice for 2 instead of E? To me, the author suggests that the impact of the the Great Depression on LA was worse than the impact on the USA. I don't see where the author concludes that economic historians should reevaluate the overall impact on LA industrial growth.
22 Oct 2020, 08:54
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For question 2, let’s consider (E) first:
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Although the author mentions that historians have compared the economic impact of the Great Depression on Latin America (LA) with that of the Great Depression on the US, he/she does not draw his/her own conclusions about this relationship. Sure, the author suggests that the economic impact on LA is worse than what historians estimate, but this impact is never compared to the impact in the US.
Moreover, even if the author did suggest that the impact of the Great Depression was greater on LA than on the US, this would qualify as comparing the two impacts (comparing does not necessarily mean to say that two things are equal). The author, obviously, would not do something that he/she is arguing against. So, we can eliminate (E).
And here’s (D):
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The author, after describing the conclusions of economic historians, says this:
- “The historians’ argument was grounded in national government records concerning tax revenues and exports and in government-sponsored industrial censuses, from which historians have drawn conclusions about total manufacturing output and profit levels across Latin America. However, economic statistics published by Latin American governments in the early twentieth century are neither reliable nor consistent...”
Then, the author goes on to detail how/why the evidence on which the historians’ conclusions are based is flawed. He/she concludes the passage with the statement that “recent analyses of previously unexamined data on textile manufacturing in Brazil and Mexico suggest that the Great Depression had a more severe impact on this Latin American industry than scholars had recognized.”
Although the author doesn’t explicitly conclude that economic historians should reevaluate the impact of the Great Depression on industrial growth in LA, he/she indicates that economic historians’ conclusions are based on shaky evidence and that additional evidence points to alternative conclusions. This definitely supports the idea that the historians’ conclusions need to be reevaluated. The question merely asks for a conclusion best supported by the passage, and (D) is definitely supported. So, (D) is the correct answer for question 2.
I hope that helps!
