SINGAPORE – Five Budgets, nearly $100 billion committed in Covid-19 support measures, and up to $52 billion drawn from past reserves. A deficit to the tune of $74.2 billion – Singapore’s biggest since independence in 1965.
This represents the unprecedented fiscal firepower the Government unleashed last year to save jobs, support workers and protect livelihoods.
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