China’s government steps in to address dwindling birth rates, following years of leaving the issue to local authorities.
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Barbara Demick’s report on the links between China’s stolen children and international adoptions started a life-changing chain of extraordinary events.
In ‘two places to stay’, a young couple splits their time between appartments gifted by each set of parents.
Bride trafficking has emerged as a growing issue in China as ‘leftover’ men struggle to find spouses.
For decades it seemed as if nothing could change the trajectory of population growth. But a huge change is looming.
According to the Chinese zodiac signs, each year in the lunar cycle is associated with a particular animal. The cycle repeats every 12 years.
African countries can learn from China about how to design policies that anticipate major demographic changes in their societies.
China’s birth rate hit a record low in 2022.
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.
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Lecturer in International Development, King's College London
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Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Professor, School of Asian Studies, University College Cork
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Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University
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