Answer: provides public goods and services.
Explanation: The passage above explains why government provides public goods and services. If the government provides these goods and services, the goods and services everyone wants would still be produced whether some people have incentive to pay for the goods and services or not, while if the provisions are left with the private individuals alone, if consumers have no incentive to pay, then it will result to the discontinuous produce of that commodity or services despite the fact there are people who can pay for the incentives.