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China's 1-Child Policy Repeal Won't Matter

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Oct 31, 2015
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The Chinese Politburo’s agreement this week to finally replace its one-child policy completely with one allowing couples to have two children is probably too little late. China is about to discover it can’t command families to have babies, or cajole them or flatter them.

One of the products of urbanization is falling birth rates. The total fertility rate…

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