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27-08-2015, 11:00 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
the failure of the campaign to raise fertility suggests a lack of will. It has tried to make parenthood more attractive by offering “baby bonuses” and improved maternity and paternity leave, but if the aversion to babies has its roots in the economic cost of parenthood, maybe it is being sustained by an ideological opposition to increasing state support for child-rearing and by the psychological effects of living on a small, increasingly crowded island. Whatever its cause, it has presented the government with one of its biggest political challenges: high immigration. This has become a source of great discontent, but there is no plan B.
http://www.economist.com/news/specia...-taking-up-too (http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21657607-space-island-getting-tight-singaporeans-fear-foreigners-are-taking-up-too)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?213940-S-pore-is-too-overcrowded-Economist-com&goto=newpost).
the failure of the campaign to raise fertility suggests a lack of will. It has tried to make parenthood more attractive by offering “baby bonuses” and improved maternity and paternity leave, but if the aversion to babies has its roots in the economic cost of parenthood, maybe it is being sustained by an ideological opposition to increasing state support for child-rearing and by the psychological effects of living on a small, increasingly crowded island. Whatever its cause, it has presented the government with one of its biggest political challenges: high immigration. This has become a source of great discontent, but there is no plan B.
http://www.economist.com/news/specia...-taking-up-too (http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21657607-space-island-getting-tight-singaporeans-fear-foreigners-are-taking-up-too)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?213940-S-pore-is-too-overcrowded-Economist-com&goto=newpost).