Najib Razak: finance minister/PM faces poll pressure

We continue our ranking of the region's finance ministers with Malaysia's Najib Razak. The taint of scandal claims, high public debt and slowing export growth all weigh against him.

In our criteria for FinanceAsia's Finance Minister of the Year study, we made clear that we would penalise finance ministers when they, through their actions or speeches, detracted from the credibility and prestige of the institutions they represent.

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