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Ministry of Economy (Bolivia)

finance ministry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ16607730 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Economy and Public Finance (Spanish: Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas Públicas) is a cabinet ministry of the government of Bolivia responsible for overseeing the nation's public finances and responsible for formulating and implementing macroeconomic policies that preserve stability and promote economic and social equity.

Following the election of Rodrigo Paz Pereira as President in the 2025 Bolivian general election, the Ministry was merged with the Ministry of Planning.

Ministers of Finance

Alberto Crespo Gutiérrez, 1941– ?

Víctor Paz Estenssoro, c.

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“Ministry of Economy (Bolivia)” enters the record as finance ministry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ministry, Economy and Bolivia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16607730. VIAF identifies the subject as 157342671. The Library of Congress control number is n2010034012. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025 and 1941.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Economy (Bolivia)” 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.