The research effort comes as minister Indranee Rajah says policymakers are focused on three key barriers: financial costs, parenting stress and time scarcity. SINGAPORE: Researchers are working on a White Paper with policy recommendations on fertility and child development to be shared with the government as it seeks to reverse Singapore's falling birth rates. The paper will be jointly developed by the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Yong Soo Lin School of Medicine and the Population