Hard-core poverty is set to be eliminated by 2010, with the overall poverty rate falling to 2.8%. Malaysia has succeeded in markedly reducing the income divides that separated various ethnic groups, not by bringing the top down, but by bringing the bottom up.
另外，经济成长的利益也被分享。该国的目标是在2010年前消除绝对贫困，使总贫困人口比率下降到2.8%。马来西亚在减小不同族群之间的收入差距方面也成效卓越。其做法不是削减高收入族群而是为低收入族群增收。