China offers parents cash incentives to produce more girls
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1262378,00.html
Beijing forced to tackle effects of one-child policy
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Friday July 16, 2004
The Guardian
China is offering to pay couples a premium for producing baby girls to
counter an alarming gender imbalance created by the country's
one-child population control policy.
Last year, 117 boys were born for every 100 girls in China, compared
with a global average of 105 to 100.
Jonathan Watts
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