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Stricter population controls in India could have disastrous consequences for women and minority communities.
China limited families to one child from 1980 to 2015 to curb population growth. The policy paid off economically for the country, but it left couples whose only child died grieving and impoverished.
China will now allow couples to have up to three children – but what is stopping families from welcoming this new policy?
China wants its citizens to have more children. But they are reluctant to.
There are signs China could drop its two-child policy in an attempt to boost population growth.
Fifty years ago biologist Paul Ehrlich published ‘The Population Bomb,’ an apocalyptic warning that overcrowding would lead to wars and famine. Here’s what the book got right and wrong.
China’s surplus of unmarriageable men poses a stark dilemma for Xi and other leaders as they set the country’s economic course for the next five years.
China’s demographic experiment come to life in Little Emperors, but not always successfully.
Involuntary bachelors, who fail to add fruit to their family tree are often referred to as “bare branches”. And the Chinese state has recently started to worry about them.
Analysis shows China’s GDP per capita would fall by 21% in 2050 under the new two-child policy.
Incentives to encourage childbearing haven’t worked elsewhere in Asia – can they in China?
China’s population policy shift has some worried – and at the heart of it is a philosophical dilemma.
In China, education is more than a means to deliver high skilled labour. The country has constructed its education policy to demonstrate its ambition to become a global power.
China’s population policy helped more women into university, creating a generation with higher aspirations.
Enforcing the birth control policy left millions of children with no identity.
The move to a ‘two-child policy’ is unlikely to boost population growth, which has been stalling for years now.
The BBC has uncovered an open online market for children but this has been happening for years.
After 35 years of consistently strict government control over family size, China’s so-called “one child policy” seems to be winding down – at least for some. Recent headlines quote the authorities in Shanghai…
The recent announcement that China’s one-child policy will be partially relaxed will be celebrated worldwide by libertarians, human rights activists and, most importantly, Chinese couples who have longed…
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