Demographic Economics

Should China abandon its one-child policy?

6 Mar 2012

Elaine Yu Yee-nee, 15, Creative Secondary School

The one-child policy was launched in 1979 to control the mainland's population explosion.

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Rapidly greying HK needs new policies, experts say

22 Feb 2012

Hong Kong has aged dramatically over the past decade and this 'greying' trend is set to continue, demanding a rethink in government services, analysts say.

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Malthus was wrong but that doesn't mean we can relax

31 Oct 2011

If you believe the United Nations' projections, then at some point today, somewhere on the planet, a baby will be born, who will push the world's population above the seven billion mark.

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7 billion and counting

31 Oct 2011

Snow Bai, 38, loves children. Already mother to a four-year-old boy, she wouldn't mind having another child, but 'only in an ideal world'.

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New report promotes parenthood

30 Jun 2007

More incentives - including financial ones - should be introduced to promote parenthood, the Council for Sustainable Development says in a report on population policy.

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Rethink needed on population policies

22 Mar 2007

A key advisory group's call for the government to adopt more family-friendly policies to stimulate Hong Kong's lagging population growth is welcome. It also is a reminder of the need for bold...

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Opinion

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Baby subsidies won't solve population decline

Chief Secretary Donald Tsang Yam-kuen may have been speaking tongue-in-cheek when he suggested the government will push a three-child policy. We hope that is the case.

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Greying of Shanghai forces cuts to subsidies

Shanghai has become the first mainland city to cancel subsidies for childless couples after 11 years of negative population growth has left the city with a greying population.

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Population warning for Australia

Numbers will fall unless immigration levels are maintained

The population of Australia will fall, even as life expectancy increases, unless immigration levels are maintained, the...

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Population growth expected to slow

The mainland's population growth is expected to drop by about three million to 10 million a year for the next decade, according to a top official.

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Population push from the north

You may not have noticed it but the Government has just come up with a new population forecast all the way out to the year 2029 and it raises two points of interest.

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Declining birth rate cause for alarm

Europe faces a serious population problem, with figures showing the lowest increase in more than 50 years.

The European Union estimates the population at the beginning of the...

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