Dudley Poston, demographer and professor of sociology at Texas A&M University, discusses China’s one-child ... When the strict "One Child Policy" was then fully implemented in 1980, it pushed the ...

The one-child policy had serious implications for China's demographic and economic future. China's fertility rate stands at 1.6 in the early 2020s and it's among the lowest in the world.

“China’s fertility rate should have been falling naturally as its economy advances, like a giant rock gradually rolling down along a hillside,” Yi said. “But the one-child policy kicked ...

As China now struggles with low birth rates and a shrinking ... Haibing Shu et al, Fertility Policy and Female Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the One-Child Policy in China, SSRN (2025).

In a significant policy shift, Vietnam has scrapped its decades-old two-child limit as the country grapples with a sustained ...

Vietnam on Tuesday scrapped its nearly four-decade policy limiting families to two children, as Vietnamese birth rates ...

Vietnam's move follows a similar shift in neighbouring China, which ended its one-child policy in 2016 and later allowed up ...