Like Elon Musk and governments around the world, Vietnam wants more babies, and it’s offering women cash to set their careers aside to have multiple.
The government is pledging VND 1.8 trillion ($68 million) a year in cash bonuses to help reverse its declining fertility rate. But there’s a huge catch: You have to already have one specifically living biological child at the time of the birth and be under 35 years old to qualify.