Jobs Conundrum ; Your Letters to the National Newspaper of Wales

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SIR - What a surprise the research carried out by the Bevan Foundation has shown that the poverty in Wales is caused by the lack of well paid jobs. What next? Will they tell us hunger is caused by lack of food ("Wales is the poor relation - only jobs will change this", Feb 7)? After World War II, the Americans proposed the Morgenthau plan which proposed a deindustrialised Germany. In the event it never happened, instead the plan was implemented in Wales, which over the space of 50 years has become a deindustrialised country.

The Catch-22 problem for Wales is a combination of globalisation and the European Union. Globalisation means that capital is footloose and will set up manufacturing when it is most cost effective. Thus when it comes to compare the skilled workforce of India and China and their lower costs, Wales will always lose out.

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Jobs Conundrum ; Your Letters to the National Newspaper of Wales

The successive open door policies of the various governments...

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