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Minister of Finance (Bangladesh)

cabinet position in Bangladesh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ17068694 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Minister of Finance is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the government of Bangladesh. It is one of the most important positions in the Cabinet and the finance minister must deal with all the other departments and plays an important role in deciding the funding levels for each.

The finance minister is responsible each year for presenting the government's budget.

Ministers

Caretaker minister

References

Rahman, Syedur (2010). Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh. Scarecrow Press. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-8108-7453-4.

Rahman, Syedur (2010).

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Minister of Finance (Bangladesh)” is cabinet position in Bangladesh. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Minister, Finance and Bangladesh, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971. For this dossier, Minister, Finance and Bangladesh is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Minister of Finance (Bangladesh)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.