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Wealth and income inequality Singapore's unwanted birthday presents
In a normal year, household wealth should track GDP. This was upturned last year, when the rich got richer despite the pandemic.
August 05, 2021
Singapore economy
Uneven recovery raises spectre of widening income gap
How Singapore’s economy recovers from the pandemic will affect income inequality here.
October 16, 2020
Life in Hong Kong getting harder as inequality goes through the roof
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
June 14, 2017
Singapore’s income gap narrowed in 2016 with growth of median household income
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
February 16, 2017