China birth rate declines as childcare costs deter families
China birth rate declines as childcare costs deter families
- March 14, 2019
- Wang Feng, sociology, via the Financial Times, March 14, 2019
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“A decline in the population of young people and their smaller number of children ought to have profound repercussions for the Chinese economy,” said Wang Feng, a demographer at the University of California Irvine.
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