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Hungary offers financial perks to boost birth rate

Hungary offers financial perks to boost birth rate

FromFT News in Focus


Hungary offers financial perks to boost birth rate

FromFT News in Focus

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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Feb 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban believes he has found a way to ease the country’s severe labour shortage while maintaining a tough anti-immigration policy.  He’s offering tax and other incentives to encourage people to have larger families. But will it work? Katie Martin discusses the move with Neil Buckley and Valerie Hopkins.Contributors: Suzanne Blumsom, executive editor, Katie Martin, capital markets editor, Valerie Hopkins, South-East Europe correspondent and Neil Buckley, former Eastern Europe editor. Producer: Fiona Symon For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Feb 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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News features and analysis from Financial Times reporters around the world. FT News in Focus is produced by Fiona Symon.