Russia is paying teenage girls to have babies: Why cash incentives alone won’t reverse the global fertility crisis

Russia is paying teenage girls to have babies: Why cash incentives alone won’t reverse the global fertility crisis

Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies in a bid to boost its plummeting birth rate, but experts say cash incentives alone can’t reverse the global fertility crisis. Here’s why pronatalist policies may be more ideological than effective.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with patients as he visits the new children’s clinical centre named after Leonid Roshal outside Moscow, Russia, August 21, 2024. File Image/Sputnik via Reuters