Tom Sasse

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Pregnant pause: India’s slumping fertility · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

And whether to have a third child or not does not seem to be the kind of decision that parents can easily be nudged to make by, say, a cash incentive.

In India, you're probably going to see some of those.

Those types of policies that haven't really worked at all in the West.

You'll probably also see religious leaders and politicians exhorting parents to go out and procreate more.

And that probably won't work either.

But what these countries can be doing is really starting to think about how to prepare for these new demographic realities.

And that means things like getting more women into the workforce, thinking about how

to build systems for old age care and pensions and social security.

Thanks, Jason.

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