Pressure Builds on Singapore's System

摘要

DURING THE NATIONAL Dayfestivities last month, Sin-gapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's gloomy prognosis for the economy-a "bumpy year" ahead-was overshadowed by even more dire warnings that the city state is about to start running low on its main resource, people. With an aging society and one of the lowest fertility rates in the world at 1,29, the government is pulling out all the stops, doubling the budget of baby-making incentives to