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The first issue of 2015 of the Journal of Public Administration (RAP - Revista de Administração Pública) is out, featuring themes that have dominated public debates in Brazil recently, including public safety policies and the investment of Brazilian oil royalties.In ?New bases for public safety policies in Brazil from federal...
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Mariana Pargendler, professor of Business Law at FGV´s São Paulo Law School (FGV/DIREITO SP) and co-coordinator of the school´s Law, Economics and Governance Lab, has spent the past six months as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School. Pargendler taught Current Issues in Corporate Governance during the school´s autumn quarter, and is...
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The first issue of the year of EBAPE.BR ? the online journal published by FGV´s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) ? is now online, with 10 articles about diverse themes, including a debate over academia´s emphasis on production, rather than substance. In the article ?Academic Productivism and its impacts on...
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The December 2014 edition of the Construction Sector Survey by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) included queries aimed specifically at capturing the expectations for 2015 of companies receiving work through the Brazilian federal government´s Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV; My House My Life)....
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In a recent interview for the newspaper Gazeta do Povo, Cesar Zucco Junior -- political scientist and professor at FGV´s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) ? analyzed the current political landscape and questions such as political reform, alliances, district voting, reelection, and more.?Everyone talks...
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Heloisa Estellita, professor at FGV's São Paulo Law School (FGV/DIREITO SP), was at Göttingen University in Germany on January 14 to participate in a series of debates about pressing issues in Latin American and international criminal law.Estellita presented an analysis of problems she identified in the attribution of individual criminal...
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The General Price Index?10 (IGP-10) calculated by FGV´s Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) increased just 0.42 percent in January, less than December´s increase of 0.98 percent, and also less than in the same period last year (0.58 percent). In 12 months, the IGP-10 registered an increase of 3.72 percent.The index is calculated based...
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Registration is open for the international course ?Law and Economics of Climate Change,? administered by FGV´s Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV/DIREITO RIO). Anyone interested in learning about climate change law and economics from an international perspective, contextualized from the Brazilian point of view, has until this Friday, January 16, to...
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The consumer price index for senior households (IPC-3i) ? which measures the change in the price level of the market basket of consumer goods for households with a majority of family members over 60 ? registered a change of 2.02 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, presenting a cumulative increase of 6.62 percent in 2014, according to...
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Professor Alketa Peci, of FGV?s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), was one of several management experts invited by the newspapers O Globo and Jornal do Commercio to comment on four recent cost-cutting decrees issued by Rio de Janeiro´s state government. Peci observed that the current...
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FGV Energy, in partnership with the Center for Behavioral Research at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), has signed a technical cooperation agreement with Rio de Janeiro´s Light Electricity Distribution Company. The agreement was established to provide quantitative and qualitative analyses of the project...
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At the end of last year, FGV's São Paulo Law School (FGV/ DIREITO SP) received representatives of insurance and regulatory agencies to debate the challenges and inherent risks of infrastructure investment in Brazil. Principal themes of the debate included public-private partnerships (PPP), concessions, and the relationship between private...
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In a recent interview for the newspaper O Globo, Professor Sonia Fleury of FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) analyzed the first days of President Dilma Rousseff's second term, which have been marked by strikes and layoffs in the automotive sector. Fleury said that if union workers were under the...
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Five students from FGV´s Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV/DIREITO RIO) are in France to take part in a summer course at the Université Paris 1 Pantheón-Sorbonne. Daniel Lopes, Vinicius Reis, Marcelo Mattos, Luiz Cunha and Lucas Monteiro are completing the course titled ?Culture Française e européene: heritage et modernité? (French and...
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In December, FGV Projects participated in a conference at the Presidential Palace in Brasilia to advance the agenda for the Regulatory Framework for Civil Society Organizations. The event ? organized by the General Secretariat of the Office of the President (SGPR) ? convened authorities including then-SGPR Minister Gilberto Carvalho; the...
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In a recent interview for Folha Dirigida (available here, in Portuguese), Professor Rubens Penha Cysne, director of FGV's Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV/EPGE), outlined what he...
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Angelo Valle, coordinator of FGV's Project Management MBA, has received a certificate of recognition from the Project Management Institute (PMI), one of the most prestigious institutes in the field.Valle, whose work was also recently honored as ?extraordinary? by the ICEC World Congress 2014, commented on this latest recognition:?I am very...
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From January 4 ? 7, FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) received students from the University of Pennsylvania´s prestigious Wharton Business School for the fifth annual global modular course ?Managing in Emerging Economies.? This year´s theme was ?Energy and Infrastructure in Brazil.? Lecturers included some...
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At the end of 2014, FGV São Paulo Law School (FGV/DIREITO SP) held a seminar ? promoted by its continuing education department, GVlaw ? on the ?Base Erosion and Profit Shifting? (BEPS) project. The project analyzes and aims to act upon tax base erosion that results from multinational companies´ strategies that exploit gaps and mismatches in...
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On January 7, FGV´s Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV/DIREITO RIO) held a cocktail hour to welcome students participating in its 2015 Summer School program, which began classes on January 8. The annual program, which is entering its third year, is organized together with FGV´s São Paulo Law School (FGV/DIREITO SP), North-West University (South...
