The middle class is getting squeezed with the highest income-to-debt payment rate and the slowest growth in disposable income on the back of high interest rates and stagnant income.

California's richest residents earn a lot of money. They also pay a large proportion of that to Uncle Sam. Those exorbitant ...

Prof. Menon, in his remarks, underscored the significant role academic institutions play in fostering a culture of ...

Household final consumption expenditure (HHFCE) includes spending on goods and ... compounded by the suspension of data collection for the International Passenger Survey (IPS) between March 2020 and ...

A key consumer survey showed a fall in household sentiment in March, adding to evidence that people are taking a more negative view of the economy. The Conference Board’s monthly survey showed ...

Transport costs represented 11.6 per cent of total expenditure, slightly lower than the 12 per cent recorded in the previous survey. The smallest portion of household budgets was spent on ...

According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) Household Income and Expenditure Survey in 2022, the poverty rate was 18.7%. However, the latest BIDS survey shows an increase to 23.11%. While ...

To evaluate the impacts of these electricity tax schemes and final prices, he collected data on electricity consumption for primary (household), secondary (electric vehicle local mobility ...

Recent rounds of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) don’t let us track poverty-level trends, but they do confirm a livelihood crisis. For a clearer picture of deprivation ...

Based on the latest Consumer Finance Survey of the central bank ... awareness of financial management among Filipinos. “Household ownership of financial assets improved during the pandemic ...

A new nationwide survey by the ... has remained the largest expenditure item,” it said. Housing and utilities collectively cornered 10.6 percent of the total household budget during the pandemic.