Global Social Security Review 2023 No.가을 26, pp.46-61
Abstract
This essay summarizes policy approaches towards raising marriage and fertility rates in Singapore between 2001 and 2023, and highlights distinctive features of these policies. Singapore’s signature M&P Package has come a long way from its original version of measures geared towards encouraging married couples to have second and third births, to a much wider suite of benefits aimed at supporting citizens at various stages of family formation, and remains a work in progress. The essay discusses the evolution of policies in response to the fertility landscape towards identification of key levers and implementation of broad-based institutional changes, and explores remaining policy gaps, including supporting lower ages at childbearing and the unresolved conflict with human capital policies.
