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Worldwide efforts to reverse baby shortage falling flat

Worldwide efforts to reverse baby shortage falling flat
Reversing the decline in birthrates has become a national priority among many Governments. (Image: Alla Serebrina/Depositphotos)
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By Chelsey Dulaney, with assistance from Borbála MáriásImagine if having children came with the equivalent of more than NZ$250,000 in cheap loans, a subsidised minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes.Would people have more kids? The answer, it seems, is no.These are among the benefits – along with cheap childcare, extra holidays and free fertility treatments – that have been doled out to parents in different parts of Europe, a region at the forefront of the worldwide baby shortage. Europe&rs...

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