Among the five Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) candidates for party leadership, and the office of prime minister, Noda, having served for two years as minister or deputy minister of finance, was the only one to advocate a temporary tax increase to fund 3.11 disaster recovery and reconstruction.
"I think that our people have to be more real and creative - If government builds a new feeder road to a village, it makes it possible for a farmer to transport more of his produce to the big town to sell on market day, " argues Anthony Osei, deputy minister of finance.
The new finance minister is Lou Jiwei, who was a deputy finance minister and head of China's sovereign wealth fund.
It has been 10 months since he was sacked as deputy prime minister, finance minister and deputy president of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO).
Zalm, in his capacity as both the deputy prime minister and the minister of finance, promised her such security without qualification.
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Under the cool probing of a young oppositionist, former deputy finance minister Chaturon Chaisang, Tarrin backpedaled embarrassingly over allegations of lack of transparency in his dealings with the IMF.
But Miroslaw Barszcz, the deputy finance minister in charge of taxation, was given an appreciative reception.
Mr Putin's talk of enemies of the people and his beating up and jailing of demonstrators were followed by the arrest of a liberal deputy finance minister.
"Current projections suggest we might be facing an escalation of cost, " deputy finance minister Jabu Moleketi announced in Pretoria.
"We are not in favour of taxes, " Deputy Finance Minister Giorgos Mavraganis said.
They may also involve control of such other crucial portfolios as those of the ministry of finance, the deputy prime minister, foreign affairs and the govemment-controlled media.
It has also made some promises about economic policy and, to make these easier to believe, the general has appointed Ismaila Usman, the deputy governor of the central bank, as finance minister.
However Poland's Deputy Finance Minister Jacek Dominik, representing the Council of Ministers accused MEPs of "getting stuck in a rut of more and more".
They also associated him with the unjust treatment of Anwar Ibrahim, finance minister and deputy to Dr Mahathir, who was sacked, jailed and beaten in 1998.
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Vittorio Grilli, who becomes deputy finance minister, is a former director-general of the treasury.
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In 2008 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister under the coalition government and assumed position of Minister of Finance in 2009.
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Two of the top appointments finance minister and deputy prime minister went to allies from Canada's western provinces.
Unfazed, Mr Gaidar seized the moment, first as deputy prime minister in charge of economic reform, then, briefly, as finance minister, and finally as acting prime minister.
Mr Putin described the new acting finance minister, the rarely heard of former deputy Anton Siluanov, as a "good, strong specialist", which investors immediately took to mean he would tow the party line and as such be a safe bet for the Russian leaders during the upcoming election season.
Before gaining appointment to the position of finance minister in June 2010, Noda served as deputy finance minister for a year.
Shortly after Naoto Kan, then the deputy prime minister and now also the finance minister, gave a noisy warning of deflation's threat late last year, the bank adopted a new lending facility to boost the money supply and bring down money-market rates.
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Oleg Vyugin, the head of Russia's financial regulator and a former deputy finance minister, has given a warning that the government risks damaging the prospects for economic growth if it continues to employ a political agenda against companies whose directors are critical of the Kremlin.
"The anxieties among the Koreans and other emerging nations are that the G-20 may not last, " said Avinash Persaud, chairman of Intelligence Capital, who attended recent G-20 deputy finance minister meetings.
There has been speculation that the new coalition could be led by current Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos or by Lukas Papademos, a former deputy president of the European Central Bank.
Tarrin is out of favor and Supachai is leaving the party even Deputy Finance Minister Pisit has announced he would quit politics so Chuan may have to look to an outsider to fill the void, perhaps another leading banker or businessman.
"Poland is not an island and we are very much linked to other EU countries so a lot depends on the performance of the German economy, " said Dominik Radziwill, Poland's deputy finance minister.
Not so with PM Abe Shinzo and his alter-ego, mentor, and (in a relationship resembling that of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush) possibly master, deputy PM and finance minister Aso Taro.
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And Mahathir's designated successor, Deputy PM and Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim, is -- by his own admission -- the target of a nasty and unrelenting campaign that, among other things, accuses him of sexual indiscretions.
Mr Monti's deputy finance minister, Vittorio Grilli (Mr Monti is his own finance minister), predicts a fall in GDP of up to 0.5% next year, with the outlook flat for 2013.
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