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Singapore has world's lowest birth rate
Singapore has world's lowest birth rate
I realised it had a low birth rate, but not that it ranked 222nd out of 222!
https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... 7rank.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... 7rank.html
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I never understood that--why do you need to maintain racial ratios? How can they tell someone with a straight face that it's not racism?JR8 wrote:Therein lies the bind.
The rulers want SG to remain convincingly (75%+) Chinese. But the Chinese appear to put money before punoney (sorry)
What to do, as they say?
(Don't answer that.)
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Since the Gahmen like to be NO. 1 in all aspect of competition. Well, Done !!
Now that we have beaten Japan for the Top Spot, if it goes below 0.5 FTR, the local can always blame Harry for this issue.In his own words " You have no knowledge what is install for Singapore. Only I do and my careful planning has worked time and time again."
Now that we have beaten Japan for the Top Spot, if it goes below 0.5 FTR, the local can always blame Harry for this issue.In his own words " You have no knowledge what is install for Singapore. Only I do and my careful planning has worked time and time again."
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I LOL'd at that.Mi Amigo wrote:Why don't they just give out one free curry puff per day for the first five years of every newborn infant's life? Problem solved!JR8 wrote:What to do, as they say?
I was thinking maybe a daily lucky draw for all parents of babies born on that day

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That's preposterous!Mi Amigo wrote:Why don't they just give out one free curry puff per day for the first five years of every newborn infant's life? Problem solved!JR8 wrote:What to do, as they say?
Make it a Capitaland voucher every weekend.
"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
Interesting, because I always thought that the Chinese had it easy with the grandparents taking care of the kids to such a large extent.JR8 wrote:Bottom four countries are all wealthy and Chinese dominated.
That's some coincidence!
p.s. arguably all islands too .... spooky
Want to give the birth rate a big, solid kick then you only need to host the fooball World Cup. There were a lot of babies on their way in Korea apparently after they hosted it...

years ago, when the baby bonus scheme was introduced ... a then colleague of mine seriously did a calculation and decided that having more than 2 children actually was financially worthwhile .. oh, well, her house, which was a joint apartment, under the then allowed scheme of allowing HDB house owners buying the next unit and merging - so 5 bedrooms in all, and was fully paid up by then, and that may have worked in her favour as well ..curiousgeorge wrote:I LOL'd at that.Mi Amigo wrote:Why don't they just give out one free curry puff per day for the first five years of every newborn infant's life? Problem solved!JR8 wrote:What to do, as they say?
I was thinking maybe a daily lucky draw for all parents of babies born on that dayLike 4D with babies...
Baby bonus scheme rewarded her with 20,000 or so, for the 4th baby, if i am not mistaken.
She resigned, and went on to make 4 babies ..
And I also remember the government claiming the baby bonus scheme boosted the birth rate by some x percent ..

She wasn't Chinese, btw .. not sure if that helped the "numbers" ..
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Which means she would have probably had 4 anyway........ecureilx wrote:
She wasn't Chinese, btw .. not sure if that helped the "numbers" ..
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