As indicated in the RBI Annual Report 2000-01, this would imply that the net capital flows would have to increase from  BIS Review 30/2002  11  about US $ 10 billion in the initial year of the Tenth Plan to about US $ 40 billion in the terminal year or an average of US $ 20 billion per annum during the Tenth Plan period.
A key objective of Bahrain since the 70s was to work on diversifying the economy and reducing dependence on oil, and since then Bahrain adopted a number of significant initiatives to develop the financial sector which has made Bahrain the center of choice for many international and regional financial institutions.