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On the move: Europeans are escaping their home countries for a better life in emerging economies. Photograph: guardian.co.uk For years Europeans have wrestled with the issue of immigration, from…

Illustration: Simon Bosch Buy the full version on the Kindle ebook store. ------------------------- Framed, the Herald’s first ebook, investigates the fate of six men jailed for up to a decade…

That new Brazilian fertility rate is below the level at which a population replaces itself. It is lower than the two-children-per-woman fertility rate in the United States. In the largest nation in Latin America—a 191-million-person country where the Roman Catholic Church dominates, abortion is illegal (except in rare cases), and no official government policy has ever promoted birth control—family size has dropped so sharply and so insistently over the past five decades that the fertility rate graph looks like a playground slide. And it's not simply wealthy and professional women who have stopped bearing multiple children in Brazil. There's a common perception that the countryside and favelas, as Brazilians call urban slums, are still crowded with women having one baby after another—but it isn't true.

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