"China will grow old before it gets rich" and it's way too late to change
"China will grow old before it gets rich" and it's way too late to change
The only authoritarian regime that tried to do so was Romania under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He banned abortion and contraception overnight.
There was a massive spike in birth rate that year, but people soon found ways around the ban and birth rate started falling sharply again.
For example since 2007 Russia started to pay “Mother’s capital” for each child born after a first one. ~$10k for a kid.
China has enough money to give away.
Total Fertility Rate in Hungary has grown from abysmal 1.2 to still bad 1.55 or so, still far from simple reproduction, but at least it goes in different direction from most of the developed world.