With increasing social complexity and international tensions, governments everywhere had gradually come to assume more and more interventionist postures. Trade, Commerce and Industry expanded and new kinds of productive enterprise sprang up. There were increasing social demands for State intervention in industrial regulations. Poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy and other social evils had become central concerns of public policy. The era of the laissez-faire state had thus come to an end. Instead, it positivist-interventionist welfare, state has emerged steadily.