Russia, US and more… Why countries are paying women to have more babies

In Russia, schoolgirls will be paid to have babies. In the US, Donald Trump is proposing an incentive to get women pregnant. Declining birth rates across the world are making governments nervous. It is estimated that by 2050, more than three-quarters of the world’s countries will have such low fertility rates that they will not be able to sustain their populations

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