Social insurance and allied services : memorandum on the Beveridge Report
1943-02-10 1943 1940s 24 pages 15. country's ability to import and pay for its raw materials and its food - which, in turn, depends essentially upon its industrial productive capacity as a manufacturing country - that the welfare of this country ultimately depends. In other words, it is o...
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10 February 1943
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| Summary: | 1943-02-10
1943
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15. country's ability to import and pay for its raw materials and its food - which, in turn, depends essentially upon its industrial productive capacity as a manufacturing country - that the welfare of this country ultimately depends. In other words, it is on the creation of wealth that we must depend for our future. We shall be a debtor instead of a creditor country at the end of this war and our industrial performance as a nation will, without doubt, call for the maximum effort of every section of the community, Government, Employers and Workers alike. (45) In saying that, we are by no means unmindful of the beneficial reactions on production which follow from the security which the Social Services afford in preserving the health and contentment of those upon whom production so largely depends. But we feel that the greatest security of all, both for health and contentment, is the ensuring of regular employment and we also feel that, in the providing of Social Service Benefits, all reasonable safeguards must be taken to ensure that the Benefits go where they are most required and that the incentive to work is preserved. (49) In trying to envisage our post-war situation, we have to recognise that it will in many respects be entirely different from that which we experienced after the last war. At the same time, common prudence suggests that, in trying to measure our post-war possibilities as a trading country, we should have some regard to what happened in the period between the end of the last war and the outbreak of the present one. There is therefore submitted the following Table - Table "E" - showing the figures of our Export and Import trade, how we made up the gap between these two factors in our national life, and also our unemployment figures during the period of 19 years prior to this war :-
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