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Qian Liu

Qian Liu

Qian Liu is an economist based in China.

Highly educated and with many options before them, young women will no longer accept sacrificing their income while suffering the double burden of a job and housework. The government should initiate policies that reflect society’s changing values if it wants to raise the fertility rate.

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Policymakers sowed the seeds of a coming economic crisis because they went for a quick fix to the 2008 financial crisis. Wealth and income inequality are at historically high levels, and might precede crises as severe as the Great Depression and the second world war.