OPINION: Malaysia’s ‘balanced growth’ better than Singapore’s ‘higher growth’? — Leong Sze Hian

The Malaysian Insider, 6 Apr 2011As at December 2010, there were 1,992,700 locals in employment, forming around two in three of the 3,105,900 persons employed in Singapore. The remaining 1,113,200 were foreigners.If say 20 per cent of the locals are PRs, then about 49 per cent or one in two workers in Singapore are foreigners. This, I believe, is the highest ever for the ratio of foreign workers