Lack of quality education hindering Vietnam's middle-income ambitions
Hanoi
NGUYEN Van Duc graduated two years ago with a bachelor's degree in economics from one of Vietnam's best universities. Today, he earns about US$250 a month as a motorbike taxi driver in Hanoi.
Mr Van Duc, whose parents took second jobs so that he could be the only one of three children to attend college, is among thousands of Vietnamese college graduates who can't land jobs in their chosen fields, even though the nation's unemployment rate is just 2.3 per cent.
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