China to offer $500 per child per year in move to boost birth rate. Really!

Have similar incentives not been tried in Western countries before? Were they successful! I might be wrong, but the general answer is no.

China to offer $500 per child in move to boost birth rate – DW – 07/28/2025 "More than 20 provincial-level administrations in China now offer childcare subsidies. But analysts are skeptical that they will be able to reverse the declining population or spur spending."

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