Question
Over the past year, India has actively positioned itself
as a stabilizing force in the global economy, leveraging its strong foreign-exchange reserves, moderate inflation, and a narrowing current-account deficit. Its central bank emphasises that despite heightened global tensions and trade headwinds, the country’s fundamentals remain intact and resilient. At the same time, however, India’s relative under-performance in critical technology sectors — especially semiconductors, quantum computing and advanced biotech — threatens to undermine its medium-term competitiveness, signalling a structural weakness in its innovation ecosystem. Which of the following statements, if true, most strengthens the argument made in the passage?Solution
The passage highlights that India has a strength in macro-economic fundamentals (reserves, inflation, etc.) but a weakness in critical technology sectors due to a deficient innovation ecosystem. Option B directly supports (i.e., strengthens) that weakness by pointing out that Indian startups in quantum/biotech rely on foreign technologies and lack domestic R&D capacity. It substantiates the claim of structural weakness in the innovation ecosystem.
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