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Social Sciences
International Festival promotes scientific dissemination
Researchers from FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP), Rafael Alcadipani and Marco Antonio Carvalho Teixeira, will join other professionals from 56 Brazilian cities in the Pint of Science – one of the world’s largest scientific dissemination events. The event began on May 14 and takes place...
Law
Legal culture, arbitration and mediation between Brazil and China discussed at event
In light of the prospects facing China’s investments in Brazil and partnerships between the two countries in major infrastructure projects, the Nucleus for China-Brazil Studies of FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio) will host the event titled “China-Brazil Initiative: Chinese investments in Brazil and the role...
Law
Brazil’s tax structure changes have not adapted to economic matrix changes
For years, the industry has been losing its share in the domestic product and exports, and its recovery and expansion will require alignment with best international practices, including within the tax sphere. There are two main reasons behind this shortfall: the process of deindustrialization of the Brazilian...
Public Policy
Brazil’s Family Allowance program's impacts and improvements addressed at workshop
FGV Social - Center for Social Policy held a workshop on Bolsa Família [Family Allowance], Targeting, and the Job Market. The event featured a lecture by Tiago Falcão, Income and Citizenship Secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development (MDS), who has been in charge of managing the Single...
Law
Challenges for Municipal Public Policies: basic sanitation, urban mobility, housing and air pollution
Elaborated by 15 students in the scope of the Clinical Program of the NPJ, Volume 8 of the Clinical Series - Rio de Janeiro Law School Journal on Education and Law, entitled "Municipal public policy and permissive federalism: overlapping of administrative and legislative competencies", provides a legal opinion requested by the...
Law
Brazil-China Initiative: Chinese Investments in Brazil and the role of arbitration, mediation and online means of conflict resolution
The seminar will provide a comparative perspective on Brazilian and Chinese views of arbitration and alternative means of dispute resolution, including on-line means of conflict resolution.
The event will bring together experts in the field to discuss the differences between their respective legal cultures and the prospects...
Public Policy
Brazil’s entry into OECD is debated at Stanford
Bruno Salama, professor at Sao Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP), participated in the International Law Symposium organized by the Stanford Journal, under the theme ‘Changes and Challenges: Current Issues of International Trade Policies’. Salama spoke about the topic ‘Brazil’s entry into the OECD: what is at stake for Brazil...
Economics
Event debates gender equality and economic inclusion in Brazil
EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV EPGE), in partnership with the World Bank Group, will host the seminar titled ‘Women, Companies, and the Law 2018 - Gender equality and economic inclusion in Brazil’, from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m, on May 14. The event will be held in the auditorium of FGV’s main office in Rio de...
Institutional
FGV 2017 Retrospective
Economics
Latin America's economic climate worsens with less favorable expectations
After recording a positive balance of 1.5 points in January, the Ifo/FGV Indicator of the Economic Climate (ICE) in Latin America — developed in partnership between the German institute Ifo and FGV — returns to the unfavorable range in the second quarter, with a balance of -5.2 points. The worsening of the ICE...
Law
Professor is appointed researcher at European Corporate Governance Institute
Mariana Pargendler, Business Law professor at FGV’s Sao Paulo Law School (Direito SP), is the first Brazilian appointed as a researcher in the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), which brings together experts in the field of corporate governance, mostly from the U.S. and Europe.
A total of 71 new members were appointed,...
Public Policy
Creation of National Spatial Data Agency is discussed in Brasilia
Eduardo Francisco, professor from the Department of Information Technology and Quantitative Methods of FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP), participated in the seminar titled ‘Regulation of Geo-referencing in Brazil - Challenges of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE)’,...
Social Sciences
Press coverage of first Olympic Games by Rio de Janeiro press to be discussed at lecture
The so-called Modern Olympics started in 1896 in Athens, Greece. Since then, the interest in the largest sporting event on the planet has been growing, as a result of massive global press coverage. To address the interest of Rio de Janeiro journalists in the event in the late 19^th century and early...
Economics
Experts discuss Brazil's Art Market assets and perspectives
The intriguing art market sparks the curiosity of individuals of different interests and fields of study. To discuss this topic, the Center for Investment Studies (FGVInvest) of FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Economics (EESP) will host the event ‘Art Market: assets and perspectives’ on May 10. The meeting will be...
Law
Future of Brazil’s Supreme Court debated at event in Sao Paulo
FGV’s Sao Paulo Law School (Direito SP) and newspaper Folha de S. Paulo will host the event titled ‘Does the Federal Supreme Court need a reform?’, on Wednesday, May 9, discussing the need for institutional reforms in Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF). The meeting will be held from 2 p.m. to...
Economics
4th Annual Brazilian Monetary Policy Seminar to be held at FGV
The Center for Monetary Studies of FGV’s Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE) will host the Fourth Annual Monetary Policy Seminar, on May 21, at 2 p.m., with some of the most renowned experts on the subject. The event will be held at FGV’s Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro.
The monetary policy of the last two years...
Economics
Inflation for low-income families in Brazil varies 0.31% in April
The Consumer Price Index - Class 1 (CPI-C1) of April, published by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV IBRE), recorded a variation of 0.31%, 0.23 percentage point (p.p.) higher than in March, when the index varied 0.08%. With this result, the index accumulates a 0.88% increase in the year, and 1.65% over the last 12...
Law
Book on municipal public policy challenges is launched in Rio
On May 16, at 11 a.m., the Nucleus for Legal Practice (NPJ) of FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio) will launch Volume 8 of ‘Série Clínicas – Cadernos FGV Direito Rio’ [Clinical Series – Rio de Janeiro Law School Journal], titled ‘Política pública municipal e federalismo permissivo: sobreposições...
Social Sciences
International seminar marks 130th anniversary of slavery's abolition in Brazil
The 130^th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil is being marked in 2018. The anniversary will be theme of the 2^nd International Seminar – Stories of the Post-Abolition in the Atlantic World, featuring an extensive debate on several aspects of Brazilian culture and society...
Law
China’s constitutional amendments discussed with U.S. think tank representatives
The Coordinator of the Center for Brazil-China Studies of the Center for Research in Law and Economics (CPDE) of FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio), Professor Evandro Carvalho, met with the Director of the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institute, Cheng Li, on April 24. The...