Finance Minister without Phd (Economics) Wins Award

[gingerlyn]

Ex Convict (OSA) Finance Minister without Phd (Economics) Wins Euromoney Award

Unlike Other Finance Minsters in other countries that have PHD, this minister has no PHD but he won the award. Guess the race:

Singapore's push towards greater productivity has won its key architect and spokesman an award for good policymaking.

Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was named Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney magazine, a global banking and finance publication. He will receive the award today in a private presentation at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Washington.

The accolade recognises Mr Tharman's "over-arching role" in shifting Singapore's economic growth model from one dependent on an ever-expanding working population to a steadier platform of increasing productivity, Euromoney said yesterday.

The shift is taking place even while Singapore's status as an innovative trade and financial services hub to diversified export markets is being maintained.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breakin...minister-the-year-euromoney-magazine-20131013

 

[Leongsam]

This proves what a talented government Singapore has. The ministers are worth every penny they earn plus more.

 

[gingerlyn]

He is also the man responsible for losing billions foreign exchange.

Singapore central bank loses billions as currency soars

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100905329

 

[gingerlyn]

He is the minister that gave loan to IMF without making any risk assessment and prior agreement from the fund owners (general sinkie)

The Truth about that IMF Loan
http://sonofadud.com/2012/06/21/the-truth-about-that-imf-loan/

 

[gingerlyn]

He was also charged under Official Secrets ACT but he was acquitted and after that promoted to Minister. Unlike Ng Boo n Gay who was also acquitted but he was abandoned by their PAP comrades.

While serving as Economic Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 1993, Tharman was charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) in a case involving the release of Singapore's 1992 second-quarter flash projections to a research director, Raymond Foo, and economist Manu Bhaskaran, of Crosby Securities, and to journalists Kenneth James and Patrick Daniel of the Business Times.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam

 

[GoldenDragon]

He was also charged under Official Secrets ACT but he was acquitted and after that promoted to Minister. Unlike Ng Boo n Gay who was also acquitted but he was abandoned by their PAP comrades.

While serving as Economic Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 1993, Tharman was charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) in a case involving the release of Singapore's 1992 second-quarter flash projections to a research director, Raymond Foo, and economist Manu Bhaskaran, of Crosby Securities, and to journalists Kenneth James and Patrick Daniel of the Business Times.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam

I don't recall an acquittal. He was convicted, paid his fine and moved on. If the govt wants a man dead, sure, no problem. If they want to resuscitate a person's career, no problem too. They call all the shots!

 

[gingerlyn]

I don't recall an acquittal. He was convicted, paid his fine and moved on. If the govt wants a man dead, sure, no problem. If they want to resuscitate a person's career, no problem too. They call all the shots!

Bro Kim Leong, Ng Boon Gay was acquitted but he was no re-instated. any reason?

 

[Leongsam]

He is also the man responsible for losing billions foreign exchange.

Singapore central bank loses billions as currency soars

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100905329

If he was doing a bad job, he wouldn't be the finance minister of the year.

 

[Dreamer1]

Minister is a brilliabt economist who found and lost his way ending with evil money and power ,pity

 

[tate]

Unlike Other Finance Minsters in other countries that have PHD, this minister has no PHD but he won the award. Guess the race:

A Phd a requirement to be Finance Minister? Malaysia Finance minster(s) has no Phd. Australia Finance minister Mathias Cormann has no Phd.

 

[halsey02]

This proves what a talented government Singapore has. The ministers are worth every penny they earn plus more.

Yup, we should be proud..one that has record with the police too...ha ha ha

 

[gingerlyn]

A Phd a requirement to be Finance Minister? Malaysia Finance minster(s) has no Phd. Australia Finance minister Mathias Cormann has no Phd.

he is a MAS Chairman and I am comparing him with Fed chairman, Mark Carney and Zeti Akhtar Aziz

 

[rushifa666]

they are confusing the country's economic growth with this neh, who is only good at taking orders. a puppet could have done the job

 

[sense]

Past Euromoney's Finance Minister of the Year:

• 1981 Turgut Özal of Turkey
• 1982 Hon Sui Sen of Singapore
• 1983 Jesús Silva Herzog of Mexico
• 1984 Paul Keating of Australia
• 1985 Roger Douglas of New Zealand
• 1986 James Baker of the United States of America
• 1987 Edouard Balladur of France
• 1988 Nigel Lawson of the United Kingdom
• 1989 J. B. Sumarlin of Indonesia
• 1990 Philippe Maystadt of Belgium
• 1991 Carlos Solchaga of Spain
• 1992 Domingo Cavallo of Argentina
• 1993 Manmohan Singh of India
• 1994 Iiro Viinanen of Finland
• 1995 Roberto de Ocampo of the Philippines
• 1996 Robert Rubin of the United States of America
• 1997 Anatoly Chubais of Russia
• 1998 Leszek Balcerowicz of Poland
• 1999 José Ángel Gurría of Mexico
• 2000 Brigita Schmögnerovà of Slovakia
• 2001 Shaukat Aziz of Pakistan
• 2002 Milen Veltchev of Bulgaria
• 2003 Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf of Saudi Arabia
• 2004 Ivan Miklos of Slovakia
• 2005 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria
• 2006 Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia
• 2007 Mlađan Dinkić of Serbia
• 2008 Xie Xuren of China
• 2009 Jim Flaherty of Canada
• 2010 Alexei Kudrin of Russia
• 2011 Wayne Swan of Australia
• 2012 Cesar Purisima of Philippines

 

[halsey02]

they are confusing the country's economic growth with this neh, who is only good at taking orders. a puppet could have done the job

Those who gave the award must have been given good caviar's...they cannot distinguish a PUPPET from a sun dried human...my, my, my!!

 

[steffychun]

Unlike Other Finance Minsters in other countries that have PHD, this minister has no PHD but he won the award. Guess the race:

Singapore's push towards greater productivity has won its key architect and spokesman an award for good policymaking.

Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was named Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney magazine, a global banking and finance publication. He will receive the award today in a private presentation at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Washington.

The accolade recognises Mr Tharman's "over-arching role" in shifting Singapore's economic growth model from one dependent on an ever-expanding working population to a steadier platform of increasing productivity, Euromoney said yesterday.

The shift is taking place even while Singapore's status as an innovative trade and financial services hub to diversified export markets is being maintained.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breakin...minister-the-year-euromoney-magazine-20131013

Not to praise Tharman, but not all other countries' finance ministers have PhDs or degrees in economics.

 

[halsey02]

Not to praise Tharman, but not all other countries' finance ministers have PhDs or degrees in economics.

Never mind the Phd's...or whatever economic experts they are all....one thing is clear all other FINANCE ministers are not PUPPETS...to give an award to a puppet, is an insult to the people of the country...

 

[scbccb]

How much invested in rupees?

He is also the man responsible for losing billions foreign exchange.

Singapore central bank loses billions as currency soars

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100905329

 

[gingerlyn]

Never mind the Phd's...or whatever economic experts they are all....one thing is clear all other FINANCE ministers are not PUPPETS...to give an award to a puppet, is an insult to the people of the country...

how you know Tharman is a puppet? it is simple.
He was fined $2000 under OSA for leaking Singapore top secrets. However, he was not sacked. Instead he was promoted to Minister.

On the other hand, Ng Boon Gay was publicly shamed but acquitted and he has yet to be re-instated by the puppet master Teo Chee Hen

 

[PrinceCharming]

What is this Euromoney publication? How highly regarded is it?