Read the following passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
For achieving inclusive growth there is-a critical need to rethink the-role of the State. The early debate among economists about the size of the Government can be misleading. The need of the hour is to have an enabling Government. India is too large and complex a nation for the State to be able to deliver all that is needed. Asking the Government to produce all the essential goods, create all the necessary jobs, and keep a curb on the prices of all goods is to lead to a large cumbersome bureaucracy and widespread corruption. The aim must be to stay with the objective of inclusive growth that was laid down by the founding fathers of the nation and also to take a more modern view of what the State can realistically deliver. This is what leads to the idea of an enabling State, that is, a Government that does not try to directly deliver to the citizens everything that they need. Instead, it (1) creates an enabling ethos for the market so that individual enterprise can flourish and citizens can, for the most part, provide for the needs of one another, and (2) steps in to help those who do not manage to do well for themselves, for there will always be individuals, no matter what the system, who need support and help. Hence we need a Government that, when it comes to the market, sets effective, incentive-compatible rules and remains on the sidelines with minimal interference, and, at the same time, plays an important role in directly helping the poor by ensuring that they get basic education and health services and receive adequate nutrition and food.
What constitutes an enabling Government?
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The passage defines an enabling Government by two primary functions:
Therefore, points 3, 4, and 5 accurately describe the characteristics of an enabling Government as per the provided text.
Point 1: A large bureaucracy. The passage explicitly states that expecting the Government to deliver all needs "is to lead to a large cumbersome bureaucracy and widespread corruption." This contradicts the concept of an enabling Government, which aims for efficiency and minimal interference in the market.
Point 2: Implementation of welfare programmes through representatives. While the passage emphasizes the Government's role in directly helping the poor and providing basic services, it does not specify or endorse the mechanism of "implementation of welfare programmes through representatives" as a defining characteristic of an enabling Government. The focus is on the outcomes and direct actions rather than the specific administrative channels involving representatives.