... sterilization, bringing in social and economic incentives such as paid maternity leave, income tax relief, housing priority, cheaper health care and free education. 'Family planning' was viewed as a strategy for population change. The policy indeed contributed to the country's master plan in building a first world country as figures of birth rate of 29.5 per thousand and total fertility rates ... and this has occurred simultaneously with rapid socioeconomic development. Between 1960 and 1988, the nation's total fertility was reduced from 6.0 children per woman to 1.6, which was belo...

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