A better way to address China’s population decline
Boosting economic confidence will do more to lift the birth rate than a pronatalist push
Boosting economic confidence will do more to lift the birth rate than a pronatalist push

Measure aims to address demographic crisis and increase families’ spending power

Delegates pitch cash handouts to country’s 1.4bn people as Communist party leaders gather in Beijing

Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny

With declining fertility rates, many countries will look very different by 2100

Number of children born in 2024 already worse than median forecast for 2039

Chinese policymakers are finally getting serious about boosting consumption