CSAT Solved Papers/ 2021/Q44
2021 CSAT — Q44
Passage
In India, the objective of macroeconomic policy is to enhance the economic welfare of the people, and any one wing of such macro policy, monetary or fiscal, cannot independently work without active support of another.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the corollary to the passage given above?
Thinking pathway
Locate. This is a “corollary” stem — a best-supported-inference variant: find the claim that follows directly from the passage’s main statement. The passage makes one structural claim: “any one wing of such macro policy, monetary or fiscal, cannot independently work without active support of another.”
Test (find the line, then match it). Map the wings to institutions: monetary policy is the central bank’s wing, fiscal policy is the Government’s. The interdependence claim then yields its immediate corollary — the central bank (monetary) cannot operate independently of the Government (fiscal). (a) states exactly that.
Eliminate by anatomy. (b) is not in the passage — “regulate financial markets closely” is a policy recommendation the passage never makes. (c) is not in the passage — “market economy vs socialist policies” is a debate entirely foreign to the passage. (d) offers a detail, not the corollary asked for — it echoes the passage’s stated objective (enhancing welfare) but that is the premise, not a corollary of the no-wing-works-alone claim. The transferable rule: a corollary is the direct logical consequence of the main proposition — here, interdependence of the wings → central bank cannot act alone. Key: (a).
Evidence in the text
“Any one wing of such macro policy, monetary or fiscal, cannot independently work without active support of another.” — the central bank runs the monetary wing and the Government runs the fiscal wing; the passage’s interdependence claim directly entails that the central bank cannot work independently of the Government → (a). (b) “regulate financial markets closely” is an unstated policy; (c) “market economy vs socialist policies” is foreign to the passage; (d) restates the passage’s objective (welfare), not a corollary of the interdependence claim.
Worked rationale
The passage states macro policy aims at welfare and that neither wing — monetary nor fiscal — can work without the other’s active support.
- (a) is the direct corollary: the central bank (monetary wing) cannot work independently of the Government (fiscal wing). Correct.
- (b) prescribes close regulation, never stated.
- (c) raises a market-vs-socialism debate the passage does not touch.
- (d) restates the objective (welfare), not a consequence of the interdependence claim.
Answer: (a).
Why the other options miss
- B not in the passage: “Government should regulate financial markets and institutions closely” is an unstated policy prescription, not a corollary.
- C not in the passage: market economy versus socialist policies is foreign to a passage about monetary–fiscal interdependence.
- D a detail, not the corollary asked for: it re-states the passage’s premise (welfare is the objective) rather than deriving the corollary of the “wings cannot work alone” claim.
Specialist insight
The discipline is knowing what a “corollary” is: not a paraphrase of the premise (that is (d)‘s mistake), and not an outside policy view ((b), (c)), but the proposition that follows directly from the main claim. The main claim is interdependence of the two wings; the corollary just instantiates it with the institutions that own each wing — central bank (monetary) and Government (fiscal). When a stem asks for a corollary, translate the abstract claim into its concrete consequence; do not re-state the goal the passage opened with.
(d) restates the passage's welfare *objective*, not a corollary; the direct consequence of "neither wing works alone" is that the central bank can't act independently of the Government — (a).