Eduardo Catroga, is a

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economist and former

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for two years during the

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government between 1993 and 1995.Eduardo Catroga
,

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After had been an employee of

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(CUF) before the

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of 1974, he co-founded in Lisbon with José Bento dos Santos, the

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and

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company Quimibro.

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, that would become Prime Minister of Portugal in 2011, was invited to work there during the late 1980s.

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