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663:, in which he served until 1981. Saifur Rahman prepared a record 12 budgets in Bangladesh; he has been praised for opening up Bangladesh's economy in the early 1990s and pioneering major economic reforms. He contributed to the expansion of the economy after the restoration of parliamentary democracy. He served as a minister of Bangladesh for a total of 14 years.
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