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Russia and Japan are offering cash money for increasing birthrates, period, end of.
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered women cash to have more babies on Wednesday as he tackled a decline in population that is leaving swathes of the country deserted and threatening to strangle economic growth.
In his annual address to the nation, Putin said each year Russia’s population fell by about 700,000 — or about the same as the population of San Francisco. He proposed new financial incentives to nudge up the birth rate.
And you're what, advocating this as sound public policy?