as a pragmatic leader, and as a continuous effort to achieved the Vision of 2020 he believed that with the increasing challenge in the global environment, the elements of Malaysia‟s economy will need to be structurally upgraded in order for the country to avoid the middle income trap and to increase the growth rate. According to him Malaysia needs a model which is more relevant to current times. For that reason he introduced the „Economic Transformation Programme (ETP)‟.