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Hungary offers financial perks to boost birth rate
FromFT News in Focus
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14 minutes
Released:
Feb 11, 2019
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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
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Podcast episode
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