PUTRAJAYA: The country's economic competitiveness will continue to be threatened if Malaysia relies on cheap foreign labour and is reluctant to innovate, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
He said the country's labour productivity also needed a large jump for local small and medium enterprises to compete well in the increasingly globalised and liberalised markets.
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