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Administration
Executive assesses public health management in Brazil
If management of public hospitals does not improve, the Brazilian health system will fail. This prognosis comes from engineer Antonio José Rodrigues Pereira, superintendent of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of Sao Paulo Medical School (HCFMUSP). The professional is highlighted in the FGV Executive...
Law
FGV participates in legal debate on female representation in Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court
The Minister of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF), Edson Facchin, accepted an amicus curiae motion filed on October 4 by the Nucleus for Legal Practice (NPJ) of FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio), into the records for Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI) No. 5.617. The ADI addresses minimum and...
Law
Event in Colombia debates gender and human rights issues
FGV’s Sao Paulo Law School (Direito SP) professors Marta Machado, Camila Gonçalves, and Catarina Barbieri participated in the event ‘Beyond Human Rights: Rethinking Gender Equality in Law and Politics,’ held at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), on October 19-20.
Catarina Barbieri presented the work ‘Feminist...
Institutional
FGV will train public servants from the Dominican Republic
In March 2018, FGV will begin a series of seminars for the Ministries of Finance, National Treasury, and Comptroller General of the Dominican Republic. The agreement was signed in the country’s capital, Santo Domingo, on October 17, by Professor Marlos Lima, of FGV’s Latin American Center for Public Policy (...
Administration
Financial Times elects OneMBA as best Executive MBA in Latin America
Once again, OneMBA has been elected as the best Executive MBA in Latin America by the Financial Times. The International EMBA offered by FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP) ranked 35^th in the annual global ranking of the top 100 international executive education courses in the...
Institutional
FGV holds Project Management seminar in Paraguay
The ‘Seminario Gestión de Proyectos’ was held on October 12, in Asunción, by FGV’s Latin American Center for Public Policy (CLPP), in partnership with Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP). The event brought together Paraguayan and Brazilian businesspersons and professionals, in...
Law
2017 Confidence in Brazilian Justice Index: Public confidence in institutions drops
Data collected by the Confidence in Brazilian Justice Index (ICJBrasil), produced by FGV’s Sao Paulo Law School (Direito SP), revealed a drop in public confidence in virtually all the analyzed institutions, in comparison with the 2016 report. The Executive Branch (45%) and the National...
Economics
Brazil GDP Monitor indicates 0.2% growth
The FGV-GDP Monitor indicates a 0.2% increase in Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in August and 0.6% in the quarter ending in August, in comparison to the immediately previous quarter, according to the seasonally adjusted series. In both frequencies, the results point to the third consecutive increase in...
Public Policy
FGV will advise concession modeling and PPPs in Rio Grande do Sul
Fundação Getulio Vargas has signed a cooperation agreement with Banco Regional de Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul (BRDE) for the legal, economic and financial analysis of projects. The agreement was signed on October 19 at the main office of the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul, in a ceremony in which 27 municipalities joined the program....
Social Sciences
Meeting discusses role of black people in post-abolition Brazilian society
The Laboratory for Ethnic-Racial Studies (LEER) of FGV’s School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) and the Black Culture in the Atlantic Group (CULTNA) will hold the ‘Post-Abolition Biographies Meeting’ on December 7, at 2 p.m. The event, which will be held in room 537 of FGV’s main office, in Rio de Janeiro (Praia de...
Energy
Program promotes exchange between Brazil and USA on energy security
FGV Energy researchers Fernanda Delgado and Tatiana Bruce da Silva were selected to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), held from September 25 to October 6. The exchange program, by the American State Department, has existed since 1940. The purpose of the exchange is to strengthen US involvement...
Law
Project encourages public participation in the formulation of laws
This October, FGV’s Public Policy Laboratory (LAB FGV) will launch the initiative: ‘Public Consultation 2.0’. The project aims to facilitate the participation of the population in the formulation of laws by the National Congress. The first Bill to be worked on by the team is PL 7,843/17, which aims to establish...
Administration
FGV wins international logistics and supply chain competition
The team from FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP) was the grand winner of the global stage of the ‘General Motors/Wayne State University Supply Chain Case Competition 2017’, held in Detroit (USA), in late September. The main international competition for cases in the supply chain and logistics...
Administration
Female participation on Boards of Directors of Latin American companies is positive, study reveals
The ethical conduct of companies in Latin American countries has become highly relevant, mainly due to recent corruption scandals and cases of fraud involving employees and management. With the growing internationalization of companies, investors and foreign clients demand the implementation of good practices....
Law
Freedom of Press: FGV presents amicus curiae to Supreme Federal Court on right of reply in the media
The Nucleus for Legal Practice (NPJ) of FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio) has filed an amicus curiae brief before Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) in the Direct Action for the Declaration of Unconstitutionality (ADI) No. 5,415, which handles the right of reply in the media.
The ADI discusses the...
Economics
Brazil trade surplus registers record high
The monthly Foreign Trade Confidence Index (ICOMEX), calculated by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE), recorded an increase of 15.1% in exported volume and 18% in imported volume, when comparing the months of September in 2016 and 2017. The comparison highlights the growth of 94.5% in the exported volume from the...
Public Policy
Study identifies gap between public spending and structure needed to handle yellow fever outbreaks
Unprecedented research by FGV’s Department of Public Policy Analysis (DAPP) analyzed the recent yellow fever outbreak, indicating a gap between the public spending dynamic and the structure needed to handle epidemiological crises in several municipalities. To that end, “Yellow Fever - a...
Social Sciences
International Conference: “Beyond Economics: The Stockholm Statement and Setting Global Policy Priorities"
FGV and the International Development and Public Policy Alliance (IDPPA) will host the conference titled ‘Beyond Economics: The Stockholm Statement and Setting Global Policy Priorities’, from October 25 – 26. The event will be held at FGV’s Cultural Center (Praia de Botafogo, 186. Rio de Janeiro), from 9 a.m. to 5 p...
Economics
Modernization of Brazilian Infrastructure
The seminar, held by FGV’s EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance, aims to discuss the obstacles for investing in infrastructure and the necessary measures to resume such investments.
Experts believe that modernization of Brazil’s infrastructure is a precondition for the sustainable growth...
Economics
Inflation among Brazilian seniors grows above accrued Consumer Price Index rate
The Third Age Consumer Price Index (IPC-3i), which measures the change in the consumer basket of Brazilian families mostly composed of individuals over 60 years old, varied by 0.68% in the third quarter of 2017. The IPC-3i accrued a 12-month increase of 3.53%, which is higher than the 3.17% rate for the...