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Asia's Challenge: Baby Boom or Baby Bust
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Asia's Challenge: Baby Boom or Baby Bust

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Oct 10, 2012
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As Japan’s population shrinks and China grays fast, a battle is shaping up in the Philippines, pitching its demographic and economic future against Catholic orthodoxy. The issue: Fewer babies or more?

A global demographic dichotomy is coming into focus in the Philippines where the Congress, which reconvened tis week, is to vote soon on legislation known …

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