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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by inglor_cz on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:22AM (#24471228)
Not really. Not sustainably so.

The only authoritarian regime that tried to do so was Romania under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He banned abortion and contraception overnight.

There was a massive spike in birth rate that year, but people soon found ways around the ban and birth rate started falling sharply again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770

Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by coolspot on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:57PM (#24473758)
You can more subtle about that.

For example since 2007 Russia started to pay “Mother’s capital” for each child born after a first one. ~$10k for a kid.

China has enough money to give away.

Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by inglor_cz on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:33AM (#24478450)
Hungary has tax bonuses for mothers of bigger families. This is a policy constructed to encourage the middle class to breed, unlike the "just give money for each child", which would be more of an incentive for the non-working underclass.

Total Fertility Rate in Hungary has grown from abysmal 1.2 to still bad 1.55 or so, still far from simple reproduction, but at least it goes in different direction from most of the developed world.