Which of the Following Statements About the ANC's Policies and Actions

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the ANC's policies and actions toward alleviating poverty and inequality in the wake of democratization is accurate?

• A)The ANC has recently abandoned its support of land reform and basic health care to focus more fully on containing inflation.
• B)The ANC has sought to open up trade and take a noninterventionist role in the economy to satisfy foreign investors, but it has increased the number of SOEs in the last two decades.
• C)The ANC pursued a model of liberal economic structuring after a costly two years of big investments in direct provision of basic needs to the poor.
• D)The ANC pursued a strongly statist model of economic stewardship in its first decade of rule as a means of rapidly changing the economic-racial divide.
• E)ANC policies have trended liberal and have brought limited but uneven growth, with several long periods of declining GDP.

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