The Tenth Malaysia Plan: Transformation Towards a High Income Advanced Economy

First of all, thanks for giving me the opportunity to share some of my views despite coming back just recently. Before I move ahead, I would like to just quickly give some quick overview of something very relevant with what we are going to discuss today because the 10th Malaysia Plan is unique in a couple of ways. First of all, in terms of the preparations for the plan. This time the 10th Malaysia Plan was prepared ahead of time, earlier than the schedule. It was not as usual because it was tabled last year. Basically, it was for implementation purposes as it was starting in 2011. And there are a couple of other changes in terms of how the government plans, in the 10th Malaysia Plan, to disburse the funds for development.