Highly commended for finance minister of the year

Peru's former finance minister has helped to turn his country's fortunes around.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski: Peru

Kuczynski (right) has taken Peru back to
the international markets

NOT ALL PERUVIANS love Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who was, until August, their finance minister and is now prime minister. From the time he took on the job of managing Peru’s $68 billion economy in 2001, the Oxford and Princeton-educated economist was harassed from all sides to loosen the purse strings and lavish money on teachers’ pay rises, angry bus drivers, overworked doctors and populist government subsidies for the poor.

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