The report entitled “Malaysia – The Millennium Development Goals at 2010”
con fi rmed that Malaysia had achieved most of its MDGs ahead of time while showing
progress in moving towards some of the goals and targets that it has yet to achieve.
This report, prepared by the UNDP in Malaysia in close cooperation with the Economic
Planning Unit of the Prime Minister’s Department, reaf fi rms the 2005 fi ndings that
Malaysia’s achievements were indeed impressive in aggregate terms. Nonetheless,
fi ndings in this report also acknowledged that Malaysia still lagged behind in areas
such as maternal mortality, women in managerial positions and female political representation,
HIV/AIDS and the persistence of tuberculosis at a relatively high level.
Given the spirit and intent of the MDGs to promote equitable and inclusive
development and taking into consideration Malaysia’s ambition to promote inclusive
development and become a developed high-income nation by 2020, this chapter
will focus on a key theme that brings together several issues raised in the report in
the context to Malaysia’s recently announced Government Transformation
Programme (GTP), the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), the New
Economic Model (NEM) and the Tenth Malaysia Plan (10 MP) that aim at guiding
Malaysia in achieving vision 2020.