September 2007
Finance minister of the year 2007: Mladjan Dinkic
Serbia’s minister of the economy and former finance minister is uncompromising – and his approach has been crucial to the revival of his country’s economic fortunes.
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"You must stand firm in the face of opposition. To be a good politician you have to be able to sacrifice some popularity. In a transition economy you cannot expect to be loved by everybody"
Mladjan Dinkic |
Hitting the right notes in Serbia
A keen musician, Mladjan Dinkic knows all about the value of a good composition. And as a finance minister too. Certainly in 2006 the Serbian economy was clearly in tune, boasting robust GDP growth, record foreign direct investment, high-profile privatizations, rising exports, falling inflation and a surging stock market. In the annual prize fight for Euromoney’s finance minister of the year award, few contenders can claim to have held all three of the most important belts in the fiscal universe – central bank governor, minister of finance and minister of economy. Dinkic can. What’s more, over the course of seven years he can justifiably claim to have worn...
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