Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit
Record low birth rates in Japan have led Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to allocate as much as 3.6 trillion yen (US$22.3 billion) per annum in an attempt to reverse the trend. But fertility-boosting policy measures have historically had limited success due to the country’s conservative family values a...
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Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific at The Australian National University
2024
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| description | Record low birth rates in Japan have led Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to allocate as much as 3.6 trillion yen (US$22.3 billion) per annum in an attempt to reverse the trend. But fertility-boosting policy measures have historically had limited success due to the country’s conservative family values and dwindling interest in marriage and childrearing among young people. An effective response to the crisis will require the Japanese government to adapt its policies to reflect evolving societal norms and to better support diverse family structures. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-955542024-10-10T02:59:24Z Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit Takao, Yasuo Record low birth rates in Japan have led Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to allocate as much as 3.6 trillion yen (US$22.3 billion) per annum in an attempt to reverse the trend. But fertility-boosting policy measures have historically had limited success due to the country’s conservative family values and dwindling interest in marriage and childrearing among young people. An effective response to the crisis will require the Japanese government to adapt its policies to reflect evolving societal norms and to better support diverse family structures. 2024 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95554 10.59425/eabc.1721728800 https://eastasiaforum.org/quarterly/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific at The Australian National University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Takao, Yasuo Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit |
| title | Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit |
| title_full | Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit |
| title_fullStr | Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit |
| title_short | Why cash alone won’t solve Japan’s baby deficit |
| title_sort | why cash alone won’t solve japan’s baby deficit |
| url | https://eastasiaforum.org/quarterly/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95554 |