BANGKOK: Thailand has tried cash bonuses and tax incentives to boost the country’s birth rate, but on Valentine’s Day it adopted a new approach – handing out vitamin pills.
Like several other Asian countries, Thailand is ageing rapidly. Birth rates have dropped sharply from more than six children per woman in 1960 to 1.5 in 2015, according to World Bank figures.
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