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Finance Minister of the Year: Who ranks dead last?

FinanceAsia considered the best – and the worst – finance ministers across the Asia Pacific region and examined how they manage their nation's finances in a year of heightened economic and geopolitical uncertainties.

March 18, 2019

Japan's Taro Aso has overstayed his usefulness

Japan's septuagenarian finance minister is wasting his opportunity to restructure the world's third-biggest economy for the long term. A new scandal only underlines his failings.

March 21, 2018

Taro Aso: Time for Japan's finance minister to retire

Japan's finance minister once advised the country's elderly people to 'hurry up and die'. Our advice to him is to hurry up and quit as he continues to fail on reform and cutting debt.

March 08, 2017

Japan's finance minister facing up to old problems

Taro Aso has made some promising proposals but faces challenges from a mountain of public debt. He is 10th out of 12 in FinanceAsia's Finance Minister of the Year ranking.

February 03, 2016

Finance Minister of the Year — Part 1

FinanceAsia ranks the performance of the ministers of finance in Asia-Pacific’s 12 largest economies. Today we look at those ranked 12-9.

February 08, 2015