Singapore's 2019 income gap improves, but could widen in 2020 due to Covid-19
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ALTHOUGH Singapore's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, dipped below 0.4 for the first time in at least a decade in 2019, economists caution that the income gap could again widen this year due to severe disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic. A Gini coefficient
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