An American expert on population issues says the policy China has in place allowing families to have just one child and punishing them with forced abortions and sterilizations when they violate it is hurting the nation’s economy. The Chinese policy may be costing its economy billions of dollars. The one-child family planning policy has already produced a labor shortage problem across the nation. Last year, Prof Zhang Yi from the Institute of Population and Labour Economics, told Asia News that the one-child policy has produced an effect where fewer rural workers are going into cities to work. As a result, ironic labor shortages are beginning to appear in the coastal regions because there are not enough people to work
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