household income

Lower car prices would disproportionately help lower-income households.

The CPI level of households from the lowest 20% income group had the largest decline of 0.2% y-o-y.

When the lowest income households have higher expenditure than income, what does this imply about inequality and unmet needs? How do we put trends of mobile phone and aircon ownership in perspective? Ng Kok Hoe and Teo You Yenn offer insight into the late

SINGAPORE (Feb 8): The median monthly household income from work for Singapore resident employed households increased by 2% in nominal terms to $9,023 in 2017 from $8,846 in 2016.

(July 31): When V Arumugam married in 1971, he was earning $200 a month working the front desk at a hotel. A few years later, his monthly pay increased to $500.

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

SINGAPORE (Feb 8): UOB is forecasting an overall budget surplus of $6.7 billion for FY16 -- 0.9% higher than the Singapore government’s estimate of $3.4 billion -- on expectations of higher contributions from corporate and personal income taxes; motor v