Russia seeks to increase birth rate January 19, 2020 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,425 |
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President Vladimir Putin has announced a series of plans to increase the number of children being born in Russia from an average birth rate of under 1.5 per woman to 1.7 within four years.
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Last year he promised tax breaks for bigger families.
On Wednesday he told parliament "the birth rate is falling again" before pledging state funding for new mothers.
"Maternity capital" has until now only been paid to families with at least two children.
Welfare benefits will also be paid for children aged three to seven in low-income families, and free school meals will be provided for the first four years of school.
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The payment is currently worth £5,800 ($7,600; €6,800), but Russian demographer Anatoly Vishnevsky believes extending it to all families will have little effect because the pattern of declining birth rates is the same in every industrialised country.
"President Putin's whole idea that the birth rate can be corrected solely by money is invalid," he argues.
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The payment is currently worth £5,800 ($7,600; €6,800), but Russian demographer Anatoly Vishnevsky believes extending it to all families will have little effect because the pattern of declining birth rates is the same in every industrialised country.
"President Putin's whole idea that the birth rate can be corrected solely by money is invalid," he argues.
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