For decades, China had a one-child policy. Now one man is paying women to have babies - a podcast by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

For decades, we’ve read about China’s one-child policy, and the often traumatic impact it has had on the country’s citizens. Of the forced sterilisations, and babies abandoned in orphanages.

But now, decades after that policy was first put into place, China is battling a different problem. Namely, a fertility collapse that has led to a drastic decline in the economy and  innovation. And now the challenge is to convince its citizens to have more babies.

Today, North Asia correspondent, Eryk Bagshaw, on the Chinese CEO who’s paying his employees to have a baby. And how a collapse in China’s fertility might impact the rest of us.

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