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FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE), Alexandre Linhares, attended a debate on the future of bitcoin, the largest monetary innovation of the century, during an event sponsored by website Infomoney/Bloomberg late September.Linhares discussed the likely impacts that blockchain technology - involved in bitcoin - can...
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Since the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS), Brazil has shown progress in the expansion of public health in Brazil. Nonetheless, perception surveys indicate health as one of the priority items in the list of dissatisfaction of Brazilians, reflecting the challenge of providing a universal, comprehensive, free and quality coverage to...
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Queues in hospitals, teachers' salaries, corruption, water shortage and abortion were some of the topics that emerged from the election debates and have been discussed on social networks, according to a survey by FGV's Public Policy Analysis Division (DAPP). The study was conducted by the ?Pulso do País? (Pulse of the Country) tool,...
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FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio) is accepting registrations for the courses Legal Regime(s) of International Business Transactions: An Introduction to Private International Law and History and Law in Brazil and Latin America. The courses are aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, besides people interested in the topic and...
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Registration for the selection process of the online Technology Undergraduate degree courses of FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE) is open until October 31. The School's program includes the Technology Undergraduate degree courses in Business Management, Financial Management, Public Management; Marketing, and...
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Does your candidate represent your interests? A revolutionary tool plans to help voters answer this question. Created by the Romanian Andrei Roman, Ph.D. in Political Science, and the Brazilian Thiago Costa, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, both from Harvard University, Atlas Político (Political Atlas) is an online tool accessible to the...
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In recent months, the sustainability of Fies ? Student Financing Fund subsidized by the government ? has been challenged. However, an alternative analysis indicates that the program may have more beneficial than negative effects, either socially or financially, both for the state and higher education students.A study conducted by researchers...
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Chief editor of the news portal SRZD.com and one of the founders of CBN radio, journalist Sidney Rezende, will be the guest of the next edition of MEX Lecture Series on Leadership and Strategy, which will take place on October 6.With a degree in journalism at PUC Rio, Sidney began working as a reporter in 1985, at the historical Radio Roquette...
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The book Evolução do Direito Societário: lições do Brasil? (Evolution of Corporate Law: Lessons from Brazil), by Professor Mariana Pargendler, of FGV's São Paulo Law School (DIREITO SP), is one of the finalists of the 2014 Jabuti Awards, the most important editorial awards in the country.The book is part of the series Direito,...
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The interest in who will be the new president of Brazil transcends borders and arouses the attention even of China. The Center for BRICS Studies, of Fudan University, organized last September 25, the event Presidential Elections in Brazil, which was attended by Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, professor at FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (DIREITO...
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The slowness of the judiciary power was the subject of the debate Justice Department slowness and the harm to the citizen, held last Monday, September 29, by FGV's São Paulo Law School (DIREITO SP) in partnership with the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. The event brought together lawyers and experts in the judiciary to discuss the causes of delay...
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Aimed at scholarship students from the Government of Argentina - the BEC.AR Program - the 3rd edition of the Specialization in Management of Innovation in Science and Technology, offered by Fundação Getulio Vargas, has been seeking to promote practical learning among its students.The subjects Management of Technology Resources and Management of...
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The Consumer Price Index (IPC-S), calculated by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE) of Fundação Getulio Vargas, increased 0.49% this month compared to 0.12% recorded in August. The result was 0.06 percentage points (pp) above the third preview of September. With this result, the index accumulated an increase of 4.93% in the year, and 6....
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Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) will offer next Thursday, the 2nd, a discussion forum to discuss issues related to the development of professional master's and doctorate degrees in Brazil.The event will bring together big names in higher education, such as Jorge Guimarães, president of CAPES; Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, president of FGV; Tania...
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The Industry Confidence Index (ICI), calculated by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE) decreased 2.8% between August and September 2014, reaching its lowest level since the beginning of March 2009.In its ninth consecutive decrease, there was deterioration on both the evaluations about the present moment as in the expectations for the...
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FGV's Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (EPGE) welcomed this month, the current Special Advisor to the Mayor of the Olympic Games, Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, for a talk with students of the school.A former student of EPGE's class of 1980, Maria Silvia has already occupied the presidency of the CSN - National Steel Company and the...
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Former student of FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), Andréa Romualdo Lavourinha was accepted to attend, with a scholarship, the LL.M of Harvard Law School (HSL). Participant of FGV's exchange program, Andréa highlights the importance of the school for this achievement.I believe that Rio de Janeiro Law School played a key role in...
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Assistant professor at FGV's Center for International Relations, based at the School of Social Sciences (FGV/CPDOC), Elena Lazarou, will participate this week in the 6th Regional Conference of the Council of Councils, in Ottawa, Canada, with a proposal to discuss issues related to global governance.The theme of this year's conference is...
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The book ?Como decidem as cortes? Para uma crítica do direito (brasileiro)? (How do courts decide? For a critique of (Brazilian) law), by Professor José Rodrigo Rodriguez, is one of 10 finalists in the Law category of the most traditional awards in Brazil in the book industry, Prêmio Jabuti (Jabuti Award).In the book, the...
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Moral issues such as abortion rights and the legalization of drugs and the rights of minorities - gay marriage, homophobia and racism criminalization - have been acquiring increasing importance in public debate. These were some of the topics discussed on social networks in the last month, with over 338,000 entries, according to an analysis...
