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A YEAR ago Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, declared that the world had entered into a "currency war" .

Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister, had the courage to say what many were thinking: that the world is in the middle of a currency war.

Having been French finance minister since the sovereign crisis began, her fingerprints are all over the European end of the Greek bail-out.

Germany's finance minister, Peer Steinbruck, has said the crisis will reduce US financial hegemony and create a more multipolar world.

A former European finance minister reminded me that, from a political perspective, there is nothing in it for a rational politician.

Seoul has no plans to introduce defensive tools to help business protect itself, South Korea's finance minister says.

Echoing the theme, Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega said the world wants to see a stronger U. S. economy.

He said the air had to be cleared first but German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck had not come to Washington for the IMF meetings.

If he had to put his money on any one candidate, Beattie says he would put it on Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister.

She said she would bring her experience as a "lawyer, business leader, finance minister and a woman" to the role.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda called an evening news conference in which he said that the yen's sharp rise was 'one-sided. '

The finance minister gushes with optimism, but how much is warranted?

Palaniappan Chidambaram, the finance minister, has said the Indian economy will continue to grow by more than 8% in the next few years.

However, the outgoing finance minister, Ivan Miklos, said the plan could still be approved by the end of the week.

If anything, the current 'currencies war' as Brazil's finance minister put it last week, is all making matters much, much worse.

A few years ago, the then Japanese vice-finance minister in charge of all things yen was out with his aide at a Tokyo restaurant.

A former finance minister said he could administer the subsidised bread programme only if he had one security guard for each sack of flour.

The British Finance Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling will present his budget to parliament within the next hour.

Thierry Breton, who only took over as French finance minister a year and a half ago, could argue his best has yet to come.

In Brussels, Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said the rescue fund needed to be bigger.

That decision so enraged Palaniappan Chidambaram, finance minister, that he considered cutting ties with the bank, Indian officials say.

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said there had been a "lively" discussion and some disagreement.

Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said unemployment data was as bad as the provincial government had feared.

Even the finance minister, George Osborne, has no education in economics beyond whatever he picked up studying history at Oxford.

Brazil's finance minister Guido Mantega said the top IMF role shouldn't be reserved for a European.

Finance minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos said China "may well have been" a key buyer in this week's debt auction.

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the G20 was concerned and was monitoring the situation closely.

Germany's finance minister cancelled a trip to Beijing last week when his counterpart refused to see him.

The finance minister is keen to see the company prosper, but does not want to appear to support large-scale job cuts.

Over the past three years, I have closely followed the German finance minister with a growing sense of disbelief.

His finance minister, Avraham Hirschson, is serving five-and-a-half years for embezzling millions from the trade union he used to head.

Christine Lagarde, finance minister, will outline the proposals at a meeting of finance ministers from the G20 in London on Friday.

Jin Renqing , the finance minister, said the law would end the big disparities between nominal and effective rates of tax .

Other politicians, like French Finance Minister Francois Fillon, sought to put a positive spin on the news.

There is no political counterweight in the shape of a real European finance minister charged with growth, " he added. "

The finance minister said the details of the scheme would silence doubters.

The finance minister, Yoshihiko Noda, said he expected the actions to weaken the yen and improve the economy.

The finance minister, Yoshihiko Noda, said he expects the actions to weaken the yen and improve the economy.

The Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, says that this leaves the Dutch approach to Europe unscathed.

"For the equilibrium of the world financial system, this was a genuine error, " Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister, said recently.

Putin, for his part, recently fired his long term finance minister Alexei Kudrin because he had been compromised by the fascists.

David Cameron, the British prime minister, and George Osborne, his finance minister, will also be there.

But former Japanese Finance Minister Makoto Utsumi insists this sun will rise once more for the Japanese economy.

Just last month your Finance Minister spoke at a conference I chaired in London.

"No, no. I insist no" , was the response of Spain's finance minister to the prospect of a bigger Greek write-down.

AFTER taking office in September, Hirohisa Fujii, Japan's finance minister, widely let it be known that he was happy with a strong yen.

Greece's Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said on Wednesday that no magic scenarios can take Greece out of its crisis.

The point was also emphasized by Germany's finance minister, Peer Steinbruck.

South Africa has openly lobbied for one of its own, former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.

Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, has suggested that the "validity" of these contracts should be looked at.

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he hoped the meetings would lead to increased currency cooperation.

Giulio Tremonti, Italian finance minister, last week compared her with a first-class passenger on the Titanic.

Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram says he will attend a meeting of finance heads from the Group of Seven nations in February in London.

After his first G7 meeting in February, Mr Kan, the newly appointed finance minister, began to speak more publicly of fiscal reform.

Finance minister Bill English said the measures aimed to strike a balance.

Brazil's finance minister speaks of a latent currency war, and he is not far off the mark.

Before Mrs Merkel produced her cuts, Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, had accused Germany of not doing enough to stimulate demand.

At least once, the chancellor has countermanded a deal struck by her finance minister.

And Finance Minister Timms says specifics must be worked out in the coming weeks.

Her stern words for Europe assuaged worries that a former French finance minister would be too cosy with her erstwhile colleagues.

Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said the need for tougher rules is deep.

The finance minister had previously questioned whether the caretaker government even had the power to request financial assistance.

She was France's finance minister at the time of the 2008 arbitration deal for Bernard Tapie.

"We are not out of the woods yet, " British finance minister and meeting host Alistair Darling said when the meeting ended.

South Africa's finance minister Pravin Gordhan also forcefully argued the point.

Thanks to the tight fiscal policy of Mr Berlusconi's finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, Italy has so far escaped the markets' wrath.

The Netherlands' current finance minister said much the same a few days earlier.

"On the currencies, I would have liked to have seen more substantive progress there, " said Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.

Over at the offices of Capital Partners, former Deputy Finance Minister Doukas fiddles with a pencil and mulls the worst-case scenario.

If the eurozone had moved to a fiscal union some years ago, its finance minister would now be in a position to take action.

But Mr Putin has also kept in place his liberal economic team, including Alexei Kudrin, the long-serving finance minister.

Bo Lundgren, the finance minister at the time, says Swedish voters would have rejected the bail-out had it been put to a referendum.

Europeans will, I suspect, insist that it should be another European, possibly Christine Lagarde, the current French finance minister.

It seems determined to skew the selection toward the trans-Atlantic establishment's favorite, Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister.

Christine Lagarde, finance minister, said she was "appalled" by the players' behaviour.

Wolfgang Sch? uble, German finance minister, told Der Spiegel magazine that Berlin remained opposed to such a policy.

Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager, one of Berlin's closest allies, acknowledged that the euro zone could splinter.

Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, is the name most widely touted in European circles.

Prime Minister Ye Hao, Finance Minister and other cabinet ministers have only a three-year contract for the electorate of the wage earners.

'We cannot grow at the same rate that we achieved in the last decade, ' Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said.

"The nuclear test has not affected real economic activities so far, " said Bahk Byong-won, vice-finance minister.

The French finance minister warned that the German ban could reduce liquidity in euro-zone bond markets.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says the recovery has been helped by government stimulus spending and a surge in manufacturing.

Boris Yeltsin asked him to serve first as deputy prime minister, then as finance minister and then as acting head of government.

When Brazil's finance minister spoke of an imminent currency war he was not far off the mark.

Kaoru Yosano, the new finance minister, said yesterday that it was being considered among measures.

Sweden's finance minister added: "We need to call off these legions of state-aid bureaucrats. "

"The PA has ended the public existence of Hamas, " says a former finance minister of the brief Islamist government.

The German finance minister said it was wrong to expect a definitive solution from the summit.

Trevor Manuel, South Africa's former finance minister, was initially seen as a possible candidate but he has not formally been nominated.

Trevor Manuel, South Africa's former finance minister, was initially seen as a possible candidate but he has not formally been nominated.

Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado says it is up to Strauss-Kahn to make that decision.

The head of the South African Planning Commission, former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, welcomed the report.

The finance minister rejected domestic criticism of the rescue, saying it was essential to preserve the stability of the euro.

Germany's blunt-speaking finance minister also accused the United States of Chinese-like currency manipulation.

To plug the gap, Mr Fujii, the finance minister, said the government may sell more government bonds.

Opposition lawmakers blasted Mr. Kan, who was previously finance minister, for his initial response Thursday to the downgrade.

Singapore's finance minister, who also chairs the Monetary Authority of Singapore, acknowledged as much this week.

The yen was mostly silent today after another round of even sterner threats out of Finance Minister Azumi hit the wires.

Mr Fujii, who served as finance minister in a coalition government in 1993, was called out of retirement by Mr Hatoyama.

French Finance Minister, announcing her bid for the role of International Monetary Fund chief at a press conference in Paris on Wednesday.

The currency worries led finance minister Yoshihiko Noda to say last week that he is closely monitoring foreign exchange rates.

He is to be replaced by the respected finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram.

A few weeks later, the deputy finance minister, Sergei Storchak, was arrested on embezzlement charges.

Investors in Russia should be worried about the sacking of Alexei Kudrin, the finance minister, by a humiliated president Dmitry Medvedev.

"The recovery depends on confidence and confidence is built on trust in public finances, " said Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg.

In signing the loan agreement, the Indian Finance Minister said repair, renovation and restoration of water bodies was a national priority.

Italy's finance minister believes that there is a "magnum of speculative champagne" included in the price of each barrel.

Early in his time as Finance Minister, Paul Martin became a strong believer in reining in government spending.

Ernesto Cordero, the finance minister, has estimated that the violence knocks about a percentage point off Mexico's annual growth rate.

Despite such widespread pessimism, Australian Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner thinks the worst of the global financial crisis is over.

The meeting was led by Alok Sheel, a joint secretary of India's ministry of finance and Wang Bao'an, China's assistant finance minister.

Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister, insists there is no correlation between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI).

Finance Minister Gordon Brown is favourite but faces bitter opposition from elements loyal to Blair within the ruling Labour Party.

But even the finance minister admits that most of its deliberations have been academic.

Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, denounced it as a "horrendous" mistake.

Yet since then few have had anything but praise for the finance minister.

Swiss Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz said despite the change, there would be no "fishing expeditions" for information.

On your second question, Finance Minister Xie Xuren and officials of the People's Bank of China will attend the meeting.

"It does no good at all to just throw dollars from a helicopter, " said Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister.

Nicolas Sarkozy backed this plan in 2004 when he was finance minister, she observes, though it was later cancelled.

Japan's newly appointed finance minister, Naoto Kan, earlier in the week also declined to rule out bankruptcy as an option for JAL.

European countries voiced concern about the yen at the meeting in Essen, said Koji Omi, the Japanese finance minister.

'The country is at an inflection point, ' South Korean Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said in a speech in July.

In contrast, Gerrit Zalm, the Dutch finance minister, suggested that the euro's rise so far was acceptable.

Economist John Robertson says the finance minister was wrong to expect IMF to be merciful to Zimbabwe.

Germany's finance minister says he'll support more money for the Greeks only if lenders agree to take a haircut first.

The Brazilian finance minister has warned of the risk of an outbreak of open currency hostilities.

But long before the euro arrived in 1999, the German finance minister of the day, Theo Waigel, vowed it would bear "the German hallmark" .

George Papaconstantinou, the finance minister, plans to lead a roadshow to America in the last ten days of April.

But the finance minister of the newly elected socialist government, George Papaconstantinou, insists no request for a bailout is on the way.

The alleged sexual assault took place when Tristane Banon was interviewing Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, in an apartment.

Luxembourg and Italy today called for the creation of joint European bonds, a move rebuffed by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

The assistant finance minister last year said the Chinese 'sincerely hope the U. S. fiscal deficit would be reduced, year after year.

In 2004, he served as a Democratic Party Shadow Cabinet of the Finance Minister, Hatoyama cabinet and served as Deputy Minister of Finance.

The finance minister, Anders Borg, has shown genuine skill in handling the financial crisis and its aftermath.

Lindsay Tanner, Australian finance minister, told the Financial Times its assessment of foreign bids was "agnostic" about nationality.

"Our objective is to reduce foreign investment into Brazil, " Finance Minister Guido Mantega told reporters in Sao Paulo.

The problem posed by the paucity of quality hotel rooms and their inflated prices has even spurred India's finance minister to take action.

The Ukrainian government is already missing a foreign and a finance minister.

In two thousand four she became the first woman appointed as a finance minister in the Middle East.

The Portuguese finance minister said contagion was moving like wildfire and that no euro zone country could feel safe.

Mr Koch, a one-time rival of Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, had also been touted as a possible finance minister in Berlin.

Last month, Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda characterized U. S. Treasuries as attractive investment products.

France's finance minister Christine Lagarde said at the G7 meeting that the euro had been pushed too high.

French Finance Minister Lagarde announced that the government has a first draft for a deal with French banks on Greek debt rollover.

Then people will be asking why their chancellor and their finance minister have been so extraordinarily complacent.

Shoichi Nakagawa, the pro-stimulus finance minister, has resigned following erratic behaviour at a meeting in Rome.

He is also a former finance minister and said that his priority as president would be jobs.

In early April, Guido Mantega, finance minister, announced a doubling in the tax due on personal loans, from 1. 5 to 3 per cent a year.

He announced it without informing them or even his finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, who conveniently retired to a hospital bed.

Anders Borg, Sweden's respected finance minister, concedes that the jobs situation "will remain difficult" .

Critics say that Mr Berlusconi and Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, have missed an opportunity.

Mr Kaberuka, a former finance minister in Rwanda, sees the bank as having an important role to play bridging the gulf.

How the Aznar model can apply now will depend largely on Mr Rajoy's first finance minister. And who will that be?

As finance minister Noda, this time on television frequently warned to intervene in currency markets, its capable image for him.

Shortly after declaring his candidacy, Fukuda won the backing of the finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, who withdrew his own bid.

But the finance minister has now said the government might ail to achieve even its lowered target of 4. 7 per cent growth for this year.

There was talk in Kingston, the capital, of policy disagreement with the finance minister.

Ernesto Cordero, the social-development minister and a former aide to Mr Carstens, will be the new finance minister.

The finance minister was quoted announcing the increased investment yesterday by the Kuwait state news agency.

A vice finance minister said China must first see the details of a new European bailout fund before making any commitments.

I remember visiting Palaniappan Chidambaram, who was then India's trade minister (he is now finance minister), some years ago.

Jin had been finance minister since 2003, and previously served as the vice mayor of Beijing.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati is Managing Director of the World Bank Group and a former finance minister of Indonesia.

'The IMF belongs to all its member nations, ' said Ms. Lagarde, after a lunch meeting with Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega.

He dispatched Thierry Breton, his finance minister, to talk to other big shareholders.

Sadakazu Tanigaki, a former finance minister expected to run for the LDP presidency, is more of a social liberal.

It is trying to revive itself under the new leadership of 64-year-old Sadakazu Tanigaki, an uninspiring former finance minister.

Now one is to be president: Dalia Grybauskaite, who easily won the election on May 17th, is a former diplomat and finance minister.

But when Wayne Swan, his treasurer (finance minister), presented the government's second budget on May 12th, the ball had suddenly stopped.

Investors had analogous hopes for India's budget, unveiled six days later by the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee.

Mr Hatoyama named his deputy, Naoto Kan, who has little experience of economic policy, as the new finance minister.

In February, Nakagawa resigned as finance minister in disgrace after appearing drunk at a news conference.

Last month, to the delight of everyone, the French finance minister Christine La Garde announced "surprising" figures.

Euro-zone solidarity fractured, too: Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, said she regretted the decision.

Also this week, the International Monetary Fund chose French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as managing director. Ms.

The finance minister, Mehmet Simsek, insists that the tax authorities have acted independently.

Markets were somewhat reassured this week when Mr Fujii, the finance minister, acknowledged that rising bond yields were indeed a worry.

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Friday his ministry was communicating with other Group of Seven countries on currencies.

Late last week Mr. Papandreou shuffled his cabinet and appointed a Socialist stalwart, Evangelos Venizelos, as the new finance minister.

But after his finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, stressed the government had been told to act by Brussels, he swiftly corrected himself.

Protesters complaining about rewards for bankers and state pension fund managers sent a bullet to Anders Borg, finance minister.

India's media has applauded the election of former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as the new president.

Finance Minister Jun Azumi has repeatedly said that Tokyo would take 'decisive steps' when necessary against the strong yen.

South Korea has a new finance minister - and a newly gloomy economic outlook.

But the German side, namely the finance minister, has been very heavily polemical .

Arriving at the meeting in Brussels, the Dutch finance minister drew a line in the sand.

On Wednesday, Christine Lagarde, finance minister of France, declared her intention to become the IMF's next managing director.

Mr Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, rubbished the notion that the credit crisis was largely a US problem.

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said that if the Palestinians wage diplomatic warfare on Israel, it could result in economic sanctions.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda is vowing to make "an all-out effort" to prevent a further surge for his country's currency.

'Nobody is linking this, ' said Egyptian Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali, who chairs the IMF's policy-making committee.

Two decades ago the then-finance minister, Manmohan Singh, began scrapping regulations and unleashing growth.

Even Christine Lagarde, the free-market finance minister, points out that the heavy state now has its advantages.

Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf told Reuters, however, the rich oil-producing kingdom had no plans to offer more money to the IMF.

Moreover, the case against appointing a euro-zone finance minister as head of the IMF now is overwhelming.

This video may be an Internet hit but it's a disaster for Japan's finance minister.

Later that day the finance minister, Guido Mantega, spelt out the implications for monetary policy.

Meanwhile, China's reliance on a cheap currency is helping to fuel a trade war, in the words of the Brazilian finance minister.

Dimitry Pankin, Russian deputy finance minister, was also sceptical about the US initiative.

As inflation falls, expectations will quickly follow, says Nelson Barbosa, the deputy finance minister.

Jim Flaherty, the finance minister, dismisses talk of a bubble.

Tendai Biti, his finance minister, had already done the rounds of Western capitals with his begging-bowl and had come back empty-handed.

Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister, suggested a European fund "to support the financial sector" .

Earlier this month Ernesto Cordero resigned as finance minister to run.

Yoshihiko Noda, Japan's finance minister, is questioning the rapid pace at which China is buying Japanese government bonds.

Christine Lagarde, finance minister, said Berlin should have talked to other governments first.

Last week, Singapore's finance minister took a stab at explaining the divestment, too.

The finance minister cautions action should not be taken based on the daily gyrations of the Mumbai stock market.

Economy and Finance Minister Alberto Vallarino said there was still imbalance in wealth distribution in the country.

Now the former finance minister (and grandson of two famous pre-war poets) has become Mr Kan's man on tax and pension reform.

Kenya has scrapped import duty on maize to alleviate food shortages after a drought cut production, the finance minister said Tuesday.

The finance minister says weak infrastructure, particularly the country's air and sea ports, is the most glaring problem inhibiting growth.

One honourable exception to this French rule is Christine Lagarde, the new finance minister.

Yet in March 1999, after attaining the pinnacle of power as both finance minister and chairman of the party, he flounced off.

and that the sensible choice in such risky times was his reliable finance minister, Pedro Solbes.

Yoshihiko Noda, finance minister, confirmed the intervention to reporters.

French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici praised the agreement, saying it will help boost outside confidence in the eurozone.

Businessmen will be pleased if he keeps Trevor Manuel as finance minister.

Ashraf Ghani, a former Afghan finance minister, argues that the real answer is not to find alternative crops but to modernise the economy.

Brazil's finance minister has warned of 'an international currency war. '

Brazil's finance minister has talked of an "international currency war" .

A few weeks ago, North Korea's finance minister was executed by firing squad.

Yet as finance minister he earned plaudits for listening to sharp minds in the bureaucracy rather than disdaining them.

Fumihiko Igarashi, Japan's senior vice finance minister, said, 'I don't think the Japanese government will do anything in a hurry. '

The protests began in the Sunni-dominated Anbar province after the army arrested the bodyguards of Sunni Finance Minister Rafa al-Issawi.

Kremlinologists are confident that the arrest was aimed at Alexei Kudrin, the liberal finance minister, recently elevated by Mr Putin.

" German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was less diplomatic. He called U. S. policy " clueless.

Karzai seemed to rely heavily on his finance minister, a former World Bank official named Ashraf Ghani.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said France also would cooperate with the request.

Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's finance minister, has described the field as "the biggest find of alluvial diamonds in the history of mankind" .

Ali Tarhouni, their finance minister, says: "I'm running a war economy and I'm running it on empty. "

Simba Makoni, a former finance minister, has been named as a prospective splinter's possible leader.

"There has been no result, " German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters after talks in Brussels ended late on Tuesday.

Sure enough, by the evening Norman Lamont, the then finance minister, announced that Britain would leave the ERM.

But as Brazil's finance minister you might want to think of the consequences if we treated your ramblings seriously.

However, aides to Alistair Darling, UK finance minister, said no such taxes were under consideration in the Treasury.

Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou says the country will keep on borrowing and seek to restore credibility.

I have talked with the German finance minister about the priority the coming German EU presidency will give to deregulation.

But he selected and promoted her at home, keeping her on to become the country's longest-serving finance minister in over 30 years.

Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, said that those responsible for the affair "must depart" .

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was previously finance minister for five years, is taking over that portfolio.

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda has adjusted his tone only slightly over the past week in response to the yen's gains.

Russia's deputy finance minister Sergei Storchak called BRICs' joint aid for Europe "impossible. "

On Tuesday he agreed with Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii they'll work toward changing the recent global growth model in which non-U.

During the boom under UK finance minister Nigel Lawson in the late 1980s, I advocated domestic credit controls for the UK.

Or take Spain: Madrid supports Europe's candidate, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.

Ms. Lagarde is widely regarded as a decisive finance minister, but one without formal economic training.

"Everyone bargains with everyone, " the finance minister in Craxi's government remarked.