The Minister of Finance Armando Manuel and the Governor of the Banco Nacional de Angola (the central bank) José Pedro de Morais are in the delegation which is expected to leave Luanda for London New York and Boston in the next few weeks financial sources in Luanda said...
The appointment of José Pedro de Morais who was Finance Minister in 2002-2008 in his place has also surprised the financial sector...
There are also reports in the Finance Ministry that former Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais who fell out with Dos Santos could also re-emerge in government...
who has steadily usurped the Finance Ministry’s remit to manage the economy as it did under former Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais; the Ministry now mainly looks after the government’s accounts...
Finance Minister Eduardo Leopoldo Severim de Morais (who succeeded José de Morais in 2008) was also shown out after being implicated in a $137 million embezzlement scandal at the central bank the Banco Nacional de Angola that led to the arrest of 18 minor officials this month...
He and his old boss José de Morais were the respectable public faces (especially in the West) of Angola’s economy...
Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais predicts 10% inflation by the end of 2008...
The Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais says the payments were late because some parties were slow in providing bank account numbers...
Although Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais has won international plaudits for his technocratic talents he has yet to prove that Angola has a means to counter the resource curse that has burdened other oil producers in the region...
Pedro Neto Chief of the Air Staff Defence Minister Kundi Paihama and Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais...
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The Minister of Finance José Pedro de Morais is to look into the affair...