Bhutan 2020: A vision for peace, prosperity and happiness II prioritizes the future and sets out the main directions that enable the nation to maintain its distinctive path of development in the next century. It identifies a hierarchy of goals, objectives and principles and presents the central development concept that is essential for understanding the distinctive approach to development.
The normative architecture results in the identification of five main objectives covering human development, cultural development, balanced and equitable development, institutional development, and environmentally sustainable development. To enlarge the policy value of the Vision Statement, priority areas are identified with respect to each of the objectives. To further facilitate its value, targets have, where appropriate, also been identified that enable Bhutan to chart progress towards the attainment of the main strategic objectives. Given the twenty-year time horizon of the Vision Statement, milestones are deliberately expressed in terms of Plan periods rather than specific years. While the milestones should be regarded as indicative only, with their attainment ultimately dependent upon resource availability, the use of milestones will help establish a longer-term and objectives-oriented policy framework for the preparation of subsequent Five Year Plans and other planning documents.