01050nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100004300041245005400084260003400138300003300172520070100205773003400906260612b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMishra, Udaya S. and   Anand, Abhishek  aDo financial incentives revise fertility choices?  aEconomic & Political Weekly    a61(19), May 9, 2026: p.17-20  aThe recent draft Population Management Policy by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which proposes monetary benefits for couples having a second or third child, merits scrutiny on empirical, normative, and equity grounds. Drawing on the state’s demographic trajectory, the international evidence on pro-natal fiscal incentives, India’s experience with incentive-based family planning programmes, and a consideration of the structural determinants of fertility decline, this article argues that monetary incentivisation is unlikely to produce a sustained reversal in fertility choices. –Reproduced 

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