"The Treasury acts as both the finance ministry and economic ministry, " said Mrs Hodge.
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As he spoke, Switzerland's economic ministry announced it was launching criminal proceedings against four people in connection with the report.
In an attempt to get a comment, Economic Ministry officials: hung up on me, turned me away at their front door and have refused to answer email questions I submitted three weeks ago.
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The Economic Development Ministry cut the 2011 economic growth forecast to 4.1% from 4.2% recently because of a slow down in the Russian economy earlier this year.
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However, the Dutch Economic Affairs ministry said there was no national shortage in the country.
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"A large number of these companies have set up controlling companies in third countries since the missile tests, " said Shi Mei-cheng, an official of Taipei's Economic Affairs Ministry who is based in Hong Kong.
These included: the Ministry of Culture, the State Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and IT, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
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This view was echoed by Christian Glass, spokesman for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs says all energy investments in the mainland must go through a special screening.
In connection with this the premier ordered the Ministry of Economic Development and ASI to work on transparent mechanisms for concluding long-term contracts.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development is slightly less optimistic, predicting that 2012 GDP growth will be in the 3.4-3.7% range (though it reserves the right to revise this upward if necessary).
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Besides their own projects Putin ordered the tandem of ASI and Business Russia to unite with the Ministry of Economic Development and the Bank for Development in the preparation of new mechanisms of concluding long-term contracts in the real sector of the economy.
In September she'll be heading to the Dominican Republic as a volunteer in a new program sponsored by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development called "Weltwarts, " which means "Going out into the World, " for young people between the ages of 18 and 28 who would like to volunteer in developing countries.
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In a program aired on 29 January 1991, Panorama concluded that the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Federal Office of the Economy in Eschborn which is responsible for granting export licenses and the Federal Intelligence Service were fully aware of the true, military character of items they were approving for export to Iraq.
In a program aired on 29 January 1991, Panorama concluded that the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Federal Office of the Economy in Eschborn -- which is responsible for granting export licenses -- and the Federal Intelligence Service were fully aware of the true, military character of items they were approving for export to Iraq.
He dabbled in teaching, consulting and election forecasting, then landed a prized assignment as an economic adviser in the finance ministry.
Martin Redrado, who is in charge of economic affairs at the foreign ministry, points out that Brazil recovered strongly after its turbulent devaluation of 1999, and inflation there remained low.
PUNE--India's biggest economic concern is the current account deficit, because the government has to rely on volatile capital inflows to make up the shortfall, the chief economic adviser to the finance ministry said Tuesday.
Before taking on the role of chief economic adviser to the Indian ministry of finance in August 2012, Professor Raguram Rajan was a chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he was outspoken in his criticism of the Indian government.
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Several departments emblematic of old-style central planning, such as coal and machine-building, have been subsumed under a new "super-ministry, " the State Economic and Trade Commission.
The draft regulations on foreign listings are likely to take the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation another six months to complete, said Mr Xie.
Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to India's finance ministry, suggests that this may be partly because the law treats both bribe-giving and bribe-taking as crimes.
While a handful of pundits and investment managers tend to doubt any economic figures out of Beijing, the Ministry of Commerce tried to respond to those concerns Friday during its regular press briefing.
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The ministry released its figures in an economic survey ahead of the unveiling of the budget on Thursday.
Headed by Dr. Wang Huiyao, Vice-Chairman of the China International Economic and Cooperation Society, and under the China Ministry of Commerce, this program directly contacts accomplished U.S.-trained PhDs, many U.S. citizens, and seeks to entice them to return to China with promises of huge compensation (one person told me millions of dollars per person) and great power, including top leadership positions in Chinese universities and companies.
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He put out a memo outlining economic proposals at odds with the practices of the finance ministry, which abides by the strict regimen of the International Monetary Fund.
The ministry, according to a report in The Economic Times, hopes that the submitted data forms a basis for a review of its CSR policy in coming months.
"President Chavez told his brother Lula that the treatment is going very well, and so is the political and economic situation of Venezuela, " Venezuela's foreign ministry said in a statement summarizing the phone conversation.
The bond quota issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic-planning body, will be used to help the ministry finance the maintenance and construction of a rapidly expanding railway network.
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