“Should our budget surplus estimate come to pass in FY2018, Singapore would have seen three consecutive years of surpluses in the current five-year framework. This would suggest a comfortably larger fiscal space into the next two years,” says UOB economist Barnabas Gan in a Wednesday report.

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