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Malaysia

Issues and Challenges

In the early 1990s, the Malaysian economy experienced rapid growth, driven largely by the manufacturing sector and this had resulted in the country experiencing severe skills shortage. Along the same lines, recent rapid changes in technology and increasing complexity of work processes in Malaysian industries have created new demands on the skilled workforce, namely for knowledge-workers or ‘k-workers’. Read more...


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