China's Population Policy

question 31

Multiple Choice

China's population policy

• A) limits couples to one child.
• B) encourages families to have as many children as possible.
• C) has created a complicated but logical formula tying number of children to economic well-being.
• D) suggests that couples have no more than four children.
• E) was copied from a successful Indian policy.

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