In need of more high-skilled jobs


PETALING JAYA: Malaysia needs to create more high-skilled jobs if it wants to stop the country’s potential economic growth from slowing down further.

At the moment, Malaysia has a “very low” share of high-skilled jobs compared to Singapore and other advanced economies, according to Socio-Economic Research Centre (SERC) executive director Lee Heng Guie.

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