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韩国将为新生儿提供每月约5200元的补贴
韩国是世界上生育率最低的国家，仅为0.78（女性平均生育数量）。专家表示，一个国家要保持人口稳定，生育率必须达到2.1。这种情况促使韩国总统尹锡悦推出鼓励生育的新措施。3月，尹锡悦宣布，韩国政府将大幅提高为一岁以下儿童父母提供的每月津贴。
Annalisa is a reporter at Quartz. She hails from Bergamo (Italy) but has worked and lived in Paris and Delhi before settling in the US (for now). She was the founding editor of art, culture and lifestyle portal The India Tube and a writer and editor at Narratively, Global Voices, Timbuktu, Motherland, W+K Delhi, and Fabrica. She holds a master's degree in semiotics and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from the University of Bologna.
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