A high-skilled economy gives no immediate hope to the millions of job seekers with the incorrect or minimal abilities
”, January 12). These are two very different perspectives, and I venture the former is the more realistic and thought-provoking one.
A high-skilled economy gives no immediate hope to the millions of job seekers with the incorrect or minimal skills. We need to follow the Chinese example by first designing job-creating economies. Then, over time, we can tackle the upskilling of workers. Meanwhile, we must address the far more difficult and long-term issue of improving the education system to prepare young people to meet the needs of a modern economy.
We are at least one or even two generations away from achieving that objective. An economy based on lower-skilled workers producing or assembling goods for export would give an immediate or near-term boost to the economy. It would be a good idea to invite the authors of both articles to debate this issue in an open forum.
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