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Regulation
Retrospective 2020: FGV launches COVID-19 Regulatory Monitor
FGV’s Center for Regulation and Infrastructure Studies (FGV CERI) had launched the COVID-19 Regulatory Monitor on May 8.
The COVID-19 Regulatory Monitor is aimed at compiling data and producing knowledge about new rules (laws, provisional decrees and regular decrees, among others) enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in regulated...
Institutional
Retrospective 2020: FGV is world’s first education institution to have 2 million LinkedIn followers
Fundação Getulio Vargas had hit the milestone of 2 million followers on LinkedIn last August. This underlines FGV’s status as the world’s foremost education institution in terms of the number of followers on this social network, which connects professionals to companies.
“Speaking every day to 2 million people on a network like LinkedIn...
Public Policy
Retrospective 2020: 43% of Brazilians live in cities without respirators or ICUs, study finds
A study by the FGV´s Department of Public Policy Analysis (FGV DAPP) about the uneven distribution of respirators across Brazil has identified that 43.3% of Brazilians live in municipalities that are vulnerable in terms of infrastructure to treat COVID-19. This finding was based on data taken from the National Registry of Health Establishments...
Mathematics
Retrospective 2020: new study addresses role of timely and effective national health surveillance
Professor Flávio Codeço of the FGV´s School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp) has just had an article published in the Public Health Journal of the Sergio Arouca National Public Health School (ENSP), which is part of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Titled “The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emergency and...
Economics
Retrospective 2020: Study evaluated impacts of emergency basic income program on economy
Three researchers at the Center for Studies on New Developmentalism (CND) at the FGV´s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP), Marco Brancher, Guilherme Magacho and Rafael Leão, had produced a study about the economic impacts of the coronavirus and emergency basic income programs.
The study examined the...
Public Policy
Retrospective 2020: Pandemic causes decrease in income and increase in labor inequality
A study by FGV Social indicates that Brazilian people’s employment income dropped by 20.1% on average in the first full quarter of the pandemic, while employment income inequality, as measured by the Gini index, rose 2.82%. The two variables’ levels and variations are all-time negative results since records began in 2012.
The employment...
Institutional
Retrospective 2020: Archives ranking put FGV Library System in Brazilian top five
The FGV Library System was ranked among the top five Brazilian archives in the 2020 Web Ranking of Repositories, in the institutional repositories category. FGV is the only private sector organization in the top 10.
The ranking’s objective is to support open access initiatives and consequently free access to scientific publications in...
Institutional
Retrospective 2020: FGV received social responsibility rating for third consecutive year
For the third year in a row, Fundação Getulio Vargas had been rated a Socially Responsible Institution by the Brazilian Association of Higher Education Institutions (ABMES). This recognition was the result of continuous work and efforts by FGV’s Academic Records Office.
Guided by the idea that it is everyone’s responsibility to build a...
Institutional
Retrospective 2020: For 2nd time, FGV was ranked among companies that best communicate with journalists
For the second time, Fundação Getulio Vargas had been ranked among the companies that best communicate with journalists. The institution was recognized in the Education category in an awards scheme run by the Center for Communication Studies (CECOM) and Negócios da Comunicação, a corporate communication magazine. The results were based on a...
Institutional
Retrospective 2020: FGV was world’s fifth best think tank
Fundação Getulio Vargas rose one more position in the 2019 edition of the Global Go To Think Tanks Index, which had released by the University of Pennsylvania on February. It was in fifth place. It was also rated the best administered think tank on the planet for the third consecutive year, and the best think...
Law
FGV Sao Paulo Law School launches virtual and live graduate courses
The Non-Degree Graduate Program at the Fundação Getulio Vargas Sao Paulo Law School has just launched two virtual-format courses, with synchronous, live classes via Zoom. This initiative builds on the successful classes that have taken place online due to the pandemic. Courses of this type allow for even more regional diversity in the classroom...
Law
Bill written by FGV student to improve anti-fraud measures in public tenders is presented to Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly
A bill aimed at improving anti-fraud measures in public tenders involving the state government of Rio de Janeiro, written and proposed by Henrique Torres Pitanga Miguel, an undergraduate student at FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School, was presented to the Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly by state representative Renan Ferreirinha on...
Mathematics
Passion for mathematics: science changed the life of an FGV EMAp student who received a Top España scholarship
João Lucas Duim grew up in a rural area of Minas Gerais, excelled in several mathematics Olympiads in his youth, passed one of Brazil’s toughest university entrance exams and is now set to study in Spain. This 18-old-year has just completed his second semester at Fundação Getulio Vargas’ School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp) and he has won a...
Economics
Home office expenses may represent 25% increase in families’ bills, FGV finds
The COVID-19 pandemic led to social distancing restrictions and resulted in millions of Brazilians working from home. This has several positive aspects, but without doubt it also generates some extra costs for families. According to Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV IBRE), spending on...
Law
Webinar discusses challenges involving access to solar energy in low-income communities
Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Rio de Janeiro Law School will hold a webinar on December 16 and 17, from 6 pm to 8 pm, to discuss the implementation and development of projects to promote the use of solar energy in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro. The event, called “The Sun Is for Everyone: Solar Energy in Low-Income Communities,” will be...
Economics
Accelerating economic reforms: OECD presents report on Brazil at FGV webinar
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which periodically produces an economic survey on Brazil, recently published the 2020 edition of this report, which is particularly significant this year, given the pandemic’s strong economic impacts in Brazil and around the world. The study shows the importance...
Public Policy
Minister Tarcísio Freitas participates in online debate on infrastructure and insurance
On Wednesday, December 16, at 5 pm, the Center for Infrastructure Studies and Environmental Solutions at Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Sao Paulo School of Business Administration will hold a free webinar on infrastructure and insurance. Talks will be given by the infrastructure minister, Tarcísio Freitas; Solange Paiva Vieira, the superintendent of...
Law
COVID-19 vaccination plan and its challenges to be subject of webinar
On December 16, the Advanced Center for Health Regulation Research at Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Rio de Janeiro Law School will hold a debate with renowned experts about the different implications involved in the production of a COVID-19 vaccination plan. The webinar will start at 6 pm and it will be hosted on FGV’s YouTube...
Administration
Online event addresses valuation techniques applied to mergers and acquisitions
On December 15, at 2 pm, FGV Executive Education will hold a webinar called Valuation Techniques Applied to Merger and Acquisition Operations. The event will be led by Professor Marcus Teixeira of FGV’s MBA programs and moderated by the coordinator of FGV Live, Professor Diego Ozório.
Valuation techniques significantly influence decision...
Law
Online event discusses legal framework for early childhood
On December 15, at 10 am, the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) at Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Rio de Janeiro Law School will hold an event called “The Legal Framework for Early Childhood in the Judiciary.” In force in Brazil since March 2016, Law 13,257 of 2016 establishes guidelines for the formulation of public policies...