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Conclusion: A developing country can increase its economic growth if its businesspeople invest in modern industries. Note that it is a conditional conclusion. We have to strengthen this belief through correct answer choice.

Between C & D, D is a trap answer as it reiterates the same thing albeit in slightly different way.

Option C is the best out of all, since it helps us strengthen the belief that "A developing country can increase its economic growth if its businesspeople invest in modern industries". Why would businesspeople invest in modern industries? If there is an added incentive for investment in modern industries.

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MGMT Prep explanation

"If businesspeople invest in new modern industries, then a developing country can increase its $
However, there aren’t a lot of incentives for businesspeople to invest in those industries.

Choice (C) puts these two thoughts together and adds an inference. If the government creates the investment incentives that are otherwise lacking, then businesspeople may invest in new modern industries. As a result, the developing country can increase its $. This answer choice is supported.

(A) Is unsupported. The stimulus offers no evidence as to whether further investment will help or harm a country’s growth.

(B) Is an unsupported comparison. The stimulus does not set the competition within traditional and modern industries side-by-side.

(D) is negated logic – it flips around the first part of the stimulus, essentially saying “if business people DO NOT invest in modern technologies, then the developing countries CAN NOT increase its $.”

(E) is also negated logic. The stimulus says that being the first means risk; that does not imply that NOT being the first means LITTLE risk."
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(A) Once a developing country has at least one business in a modern industry, further investment in that industry will not contribute to the country's economic growth. Extreme and cannot infer it from the given info
(B) In developing countries, there is greater competition within modern industries than within traditional industries. No info has been given on traditional industries
(C) A developing country can increase its prospects for economic growth by providing added incentive for investment in modern industries that have not yet been pursued there. True! As the incentives lessen the risk involved, they will encourage more businessmen to pursue new industries
(D) A developing country will not experience economic growth unless its business people invest in modern industries. Extreme
(E) Investments in a modern industry in a developing country carry little risk as long as the country has at least one other business in that industry. Little risk comparatively, not absolutely
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