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Last week, two countries important to the Philippines—and to Asean,
South Korea and Russia, had reasons to be concerned with their
demographic crisis.
On Thursday, February 26, Russia’s Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin told an audience of European health and
social policy officials that “paying mothers for babies has been
an effective measure in easing Russia’s demographic crisis.” The
occasion was a conference organized by the Council of Europe, which
is worried about the empty-cradle and aging-population problems.
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ALMOST three debilitating decades on, over 70,000 wasted lives later
and following immeasurable cost to the economic, social and moral
fabric of this indescribably beautiful country that lies,
ironically, like a tear drop at the...
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