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Too Late To Reverse China's One-Child Policy?
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Too Late To Reverse China's One-Child Policy?

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Feb 27, 2013
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In recent years, fears have grown that China may lose its demographic advantage as the population bulge shifts inexorably towards the aged after three decades of its draconian one-child policy, leaving the country with what is expected to be a static working-age population supporting a vast elderly cohort by 2040.

According to government estimates, thos…

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