The TEN-POINT agenda of the state has been a thoroughly articulated development blue print that if well implemented will attract investors to the state. THE CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER has the task of guiding the government executive in the path of implementing such an agenda. Increasingly governments around the world focus on the provision of enabling environments that will attract and foster investments by the private/local and foreign investors thus encouraging less reliance on direct government intervention.

The state economy is a sub set of the national economy of the federal republic of Nigeria, therefore no macro economic analysis can be made of it in isolation. However, the plateau state economy is being characterized by:

• • Public servants and private sector employees. These include those from state and federal government agencies as well as those of the private sector companies such as banks, insurance houses, churches, NGO’s, international agencies e.t.c. Employees and employers make large contributions in tax payments, most commonly PAYE tax to the state government.