Health and Public Safety consolidate the main demands of the Brazilian electorate for the new Congress, which takes over early February for the next four years. Research conducted by FGV's Public Policy Analysis Division (FGV/Dapp) reveals that these are the priority areas for parliamentary initiatives in the coming years. Asked to choose up to...

The Trade Confidence Index calculated by FGV´s Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) registered a decline of 1.5 percent between December 2014 and January 2015. With this dip, the index hit 107.3 points, the lowest level measured since the series began in March 2010. The institute´s consumer confidence and construction confidence indices...

The Office of Educational Affairs at Brazil's Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a note recognizing that Fundação Getulio Vargas will provide a scholarship to Ye Ming of the Center for BRICS Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, to carry out research at FGV on economic and trade cooperation between China and Brazil. Ming will be affiliated with...

The book ?The Legal Protection of Animals in Brazil: A Brief History,? by Samylla Mól and Renato Venancio, is the most recent edition of FGV Press´s series ?Pocket FGV: History.? The book discusses the extent to which the legal protection of animals is an important aspect of socio-environmental citizenship.The animal rights movement has deep...

Registration is open until Thursday, Jan. 29, for continuing education courses at FGV´s Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV/DIREITO RIO). The short-term executive courses target professionals from various fields, offering a practical approach to studying the law, with a mixture of technical and academic coursework.Interested candidates may choose...

The Construction Confidence Index (ICST), released monthly by FGV´s Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE), fell 6.1 percent in January, to 90.8 -- the lowest level on record since the series began in July 2010.  ?After struggling with a lack of qualified labor for years, construction executives now struggle with weak demand in all...

Carlos Pereira, professor of political science at FGV´s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), recently commented on changes in President Dilma Rousseff´s alliances between the first and second term.  According to Pereira, the president´s first-term coalitions were inefficient, with too many parties and...

Fifty years ago, Brazil took a crucial step for national growth and industrialization by passing national tax reform, which organized the tax system based on the economic jurisdiction that each tax was associated with (federal, state, or municipal), rather than by the legal nature of the tax.  The tax reform initiative got its start in 1963,...

The renowned Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho, who passed away in 2012, would have turned 70 this year. In honor of the date, FGV Press has released ?Mundos em mediação: ensaios ao encontro de Gilberto Velho? (Worlds in mediation: essays to meet Gilberto Velho).  The anthology, organized by professors Celso Castro and Graça Índias,...