Bigger reach - Barbados Today
A draft policy to address Barbados’ declining population rate would see authorities providing child subsidies for low-income single parents along with affordable fertility assessments and treatments, and facilitating foreigners taking up residence here.The just-released draft Barbados Population Policy warns that failure to take steps to counteract what is one of the lowest population growth rates in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would have detrimental economic and social consequences.Noting the steady decline in birth and death rates since independence, an executive summary of the polic...
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