IF former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew were in charge of Singapore today, he would have introduced a baby bonus equal to two years of the average Singaporean’s salary.
This would not be to boost the country’s abysmal total fertility rate of 1.2. Rather, Lee would do it to “prove that super-sized monetary incentives would only have a marginal effect on fertility rates”.
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