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Balanced growth: 1991 onwards

M. Anuar Adnan, Jamal Othman and Mohd Alias

The National Development Policy of the 1990s maintained the New Economic Policy’s thrust of socioeconomic restructuring, but shifted the focus from quantitative targets to qualitative ones. Poverty eradication efforts focused on hardcore and relative poverty. Vision 2020, launched in 1991, targeted the achievement of ‘fully developed nation’ status by the year 2020.

  • Information in the full article includes
  • Planning for the 1990s
  • The National Development Policy (1991–2000)
  • Results of the NDP
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Angkasapuri building, Kuala Lumpur, part of the Ministry of Information complex, displaying the Wawasan 2020 (Vision 2020) ideal in 2005.