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

We continue FinanceAsia's Finance Minister of the Year study with another minister who combines gaffes and scandals with limited progress on the economic front. The latest cronyism scandal only confirms his lowly place in our list. 

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