China is planning to offer cash handouts to families as an incentive for couples to have children, according to people ...

In the late 1970s, China’s began to adopt a “one-child policy” to reduce population growth. The restrictive policy started with Chinese Communist cadre members and quickly expanded to the ...

For years, just as China was opening its economy, the share of working-age Chinese grew faster than the parts of the population that didn’t work. That was a big factor in China’s economic miracle.

Yong Cai is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on China's one-child policy and its implications for fertility and social policies ...

Taken together with the number of people who died over 2024 — 10.93 million — China’s population shrank for a third straight year. China’s population continues to shrink as deaths ...

Understanding China's One-Child Policy . The one-child policy refers to a set of laws implemented in China beginning in 1979 in response to explosive population growth that government officials ...

The demographic dynamics in India and China have major impacts on global economic development. Seeking to reassess the ...

China moved to a two-child policy in 2016 and, when that didn't work, a three-child one in 2021. The successive policy relaxation has not done the trick. The country's population peaked in 2021.

This method of estimation greatly boosts the importance of India, whose generally negative views among a population of 1.4 billion offset the strongly positive views of more than 50 countries in ...

China’s economy today bears an unsettling resemblance to Japan’s in the 1990s, when the collapse of a housing bubble led to ...