Eduardo Catroga, is a Portuguese economist and former

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for two years during the

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's PSD government between 1993 and 1995.Eduardo Catroga
, Correio da Manhã After had been an employee of

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(CUF) before the

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of 1974, he co-founded in

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with José Bento dos Santos, the

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and

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company Quimibro.

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, that would become

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in 2011, was invited to work there during the late 1980s.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Catroga, Eduardo Finance ministers of Portugal 20th-century Portuguese economists 1942 births People from Abrantes Living people Social Democratic Party (Portugal) politicians