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AFP via Getty ImagesThese countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. Taiwan has spent more than $3 billion trying to get its citizens to have more children.
In 2009, after decades of falling birth rates, it began offering six months of paid parental leave, reimbursed at 60 percent of a new parent’s salary — then recently increased that share to 80 percent. The government has introduced a cash benefit and a tax break for pare
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