Gini coefficient

In a normal year, household wealth should track GDP. This was upturned last year, when the rich got richer despite the pandemic.

How Singapore’s economy recovers from the pandemic will affect income inequality here.

HONG KONG / LONDON (June 14): Mrs Lau can’t help but glance nervously at the calendar. Her next paycheck isn’t for a week, and she doesn’t have enough money to feed her family of four crammed into her small, government-subsidised Hong Kong apartment

SINGAPORE (Feb 16): Not only was Singapore’s Gini coefficient, a measure of income disparity, the lowest in a decade at 0.458 in 2016 – it fell even further to 0.402 after adjusting for government transfers and taxes, according to Singapore’s Depart