Hong Kong CNN —Hong Kong is to pay new parents more than $2,500 for having a baby in a bid to boost its flagging birth rate, but many residents in the notoriously expensive city say it’s barely enough to cover a month’s rent.
In Japan (birth rate 1.3), parents get a monthly allowance of $107 dollars for each newborn until two years of age.
For each child between three years old and senior high, parents get $66.7 per month.
Hong Kong subsidizes education from kindergarten to senior high, but nursery, the year or two before kindergarten, is not usually covered.
“The government should be thinking about how to convince [us] that Hong Kong is conducive to child-raising,” Lau said.
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John Lee Ka, chiu, ” Lee, ”, Ken Lau, Kristy Chan, ” Lau, Kim Yeung, ” Yeung, Paul Yip Siu, Hong, ” Yip, Sze Lai, Sze, Lau, “
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Hong Kong CNN, Hong, HK, CNN, Midland Realty, fai, University of Hong, Society for Community Organization
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Hong Kong, East Asia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, University of Hong Kong