Labour productivity dragged down by domestic sectors
Government's 'aspirational' target of 2-3 per cent annual productivity growth remains, says MTI
Singapore
SINGAPORE's labour productivity has been weighed down by a shift in employment towards less productive sectors, with domestically oriented industries lagging far behind export-oriented ones. Still, the government's ambitious 2-3 per cent annual productivity growth target remains, albeit as an "aspirational" goal, said Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) Permanent Secretary Ow Foong Pheng on Tuesday.
According to a new MTI study, the productivity performance of export-oriented sectors has far outstripped that of domestically oriented ones. From 2009 to 2014, productivity growth of the former stood…
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