Vítor Gaspar
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Vítor Gaspar GCIH |
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| Minister of State | |
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In office 21 June 2011 – 2 July 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Pedro Passos Coelho |
| Preceded by |
Luís Amado Fernando Teixeira dos Santos |
| Succeeded by | Maria Luís Albuquerque |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 21 June 2011 – 2 July 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Pedro Passos Coelho |
| Preceded by | Fernando Teixeira dos Santos |
| Succeeded by | Maria Luís Albuquerque |
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| Born |
Vítor Louçã Rabaça Gaspar 9 November 1960 Manteigas, Portugal |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Sílvia Luz (m. 1985) |
| Children | Catarina (born 1986) Marta (born 1991) Madalena (born 1998) |
| Alma mater |
Catholic University of Portugal New University of Lisbon |
| Profession | Economist |
Vítor Louçã Rabaça Gaspar (born 9 November 1960), GCIH is a Portuguese economist and former politician, who served as Minister of Finance and Minister of State from 21 June 2011 until his resignation on 2 July 2013.
Gaspar holds a degree in economics from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) in 1982. He received a PhD in economics from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1988.
Gaspar was the director-general for research at the European Central Bank for six years. Then he became an adviser to the Bank of Portugal, having been from 2007 director-general at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (ERI) with the President of the European Commission.
Without any previous political activity, he was appointed Minister of Finance in Pedro Passos Coelho's cabinet on 21 June 2011. In this capacity, Gaspar's policies included a firm intention to accomplish the European Union/IMF-led rescue plan for Portugal's sovereign debt crisis. The rescue plan consisted of widespread tax increases and reforms aimed at better efficiency and rationalized resource allocation in the public sector, in order to reduce the number of unnecessary civil servants and the public sector's chronic overcapacity.
As time went on it became increasingly clear that a series of supplementary measures would be taken during the course of the year as a means to restrain an out-of-control budget deficit. These included sharp cuts in spending on state-run healthcare, education and social security systems, along with widespread tax hikes.
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