1) Singapore started the two child policy in 1972 while China started the one child policy in 1979
2) Similarly with Singapore, China too has an aging population thus the government removed the policy recently
3) In Singapore, a lot of incentives were given to married couples so that they will want to give birth. A good example of an incentive is the Baby Bonus
2 perceptions I have gained
1) Policies are made with short term goals, in this context, controlling the population by restricting people to give birth to only an amount of children. However, the policies may have long term implications thus making it hard to reverse the problem.
2) Being a relatively fast growing country, there are always tensions caused in different areas such as education, family, infrastructure, economics and health by the decisions made by the government
1 question I have
1) How long will it take to balance out the aging population and the amount of youths and working citizen in Singapore?
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