How Anwar performed as Finance Minister (Part 1)

Whatever you may think of Anwar, he did manage to reduce the country’s budget deficit (as a percentage of GDP) and even managed to turn a surplus.

Anwar was appointed Finance Minister in 1991 in the Mahathir administration and deputy PM in 1993. He was ousted from power in 1998.

Some may have reservations about what they perceive to be his neo-liberal inclinations, but it has to be said that we haven’t seen a surplus since then.

- anilnetto