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Students of the Mediation and Dialogue Facilitation Clinic at São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP) conducted in April, an awareness activity with students of the state school Maria Augusta Saraiva in Bela Vista. Four sixth grade classes participated in the activity. The activity focused on community mediation, one of the fronts of the Clinic...
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There's good and bad news for Mother's Day this year, according to a survey prepared by, André Braz, economist at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/Ibre). The first is that most of the gift suggestions are below the accumulated inflation according to the Consumer Price Index (IPC), calculated by Ibre, which recorded an 8.41% increase...
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On July 20-24, the city of New York will host the Music Business Innovation Lab: Transmedia Collaborations for Executives. The course is designed for executives from multiple nationalities working in music, audiovisual or games, with three to eight years of experience in these areas. The program is a partnership between the International...
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In April, the Weekly Consumer Price Index (IPC-S) calculated by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/Ibre) recorded a decrease compared to the previous month, with a 0.61% change, that is, 0.1 percentage points below the value recorded in the last disclosure. But that does not mean peace of mind for consumers. Some products presented a...
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Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio) will hold, on May 8, from 9 am to 2 pm, the Workshop Law and Society in Latin America. The event will present innovative socio-legal research by FGV and Stanford Law School (USA), conducted by researchers from Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, the United States and Canada.The opening panel will...
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In the third edition this year of the Journal of Business Administration (Revista de Administração de Empresas - RAE), volume 55, the publication features three articles presented at the 8th Iberoamerican Academy Conference (AMI), held in 2013 at São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP), and articles on the participatory...
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Under pressure to adopt macroeconomic adjustments in 2015, Brazil began to live more intensely with the chronic difficulty of carrying out essential infrastructure works to make the economy function properly and for the population's well-being. The tax bottleneck imposed by the minister Joaquim Levy emphasized the inability of the Brazilian...
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The committee of the Monitoring Center for Tax Reform of the Center for Fiscal Studies at São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP) discussed last April 27, the Value Added Tax (VAT) as a paradigm for the reform of the PIS (Social Integration Program) and Cofins (Contribution to Social Security) and the ICMS (Tax on Circulation of Goods and...
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FGV's Center for International Relations, based at the School of Social Sciences (CPDOC), in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and the European Union Delegation in Brazil, will hold, on May 11-13, the 4th Europe Week. The week will include two events: the 4th Europe Day Conference - The European Union and the Challenges of...
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Last April 27, FGV?s Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV/EPGE) welcomed Renato Villela, Secretary of the Treasury of the State of São Paulo for the Opening Session at the School.During the meeting, Villela criticized the fiscal war among the states and stressed the need to reach an agreement on the reform of the Brazilian Tax on...
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The future of nuclear energy in the world and in Brazil was the theme of the lecture given on Wednesday, April 29, by the technical advisor of the Planning, Management and Environment Division of Eletronuclear, Roberto Travassos, invited by FGV Energy for another edition of the lecture program called Energia em Foco (Energy in Focus). At the...
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FGV Projects will hold, on May 11, at the Harvard Club in New York, the IV World Economy and Brazil. The fourth edition of the event, organized in partnership with the Brazil-American Chamber of Commerce (Brazilcham), will feature Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of US State, as keynote speaker. The session will be chaired by Cesar Cunha...
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A study on the primary fiscal balance of the public sector, conducted by researchers of the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/Ibre), José Roberto Afonso and Vilma Pinto, indicates a surprising result: even in the midst of poor economic performance, regional governments accounted for 83% of the BRL 18.8 billion primary surplus of the country...
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Taxation and Sustainability are becoming increasingly related issues and soon we will no longer be able to separate them. Given that environmental issues have taken the main role in debates in many countries as a precondition to human dignity, a value that occupies the central position of various legal systems of the civilized world, FGV Press...
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Marta Machado, professor at São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP) will participate today, April 30, in an event in Brasília to discuss femicide in Brazil. This is the fifth edition of the seminar Dialogues on Justice, held by the Ministry of Justice, and is based on research conducted by the Centre for Studies on the Justice System (CEJUS)...
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According to the macroeconomic team of FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/Ibre), if there was more uncertainty about the direction of fiscal adjustment before, the second quarter of the year begins with the consolidation of certain trends discussed by analysts ? including that the government will do whatever it takes to generate a...
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The latest edition of the Brazilian Energy Sector Bulletin, produced by FGV Energy, features a publication on the situation of water and energy waste in Brazil, an increasingly important issue, especially given the water crisis which has also brought about difficulties in power generation. The material also includes a special column with the...
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Roberto Rodrigues, former Minister of Agriculture and coordinator of the Center for Agribusiness Studies (GV Agro) of FGV's São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/Eesp) ? alongside Professor Angelo Gurgel ? has just received the Distinguished Service Award, considered the highest honor bestowed by the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).The...
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Next May 8, Fundação Getulio Vargas will promote the event The Regulation of Economy in Brazil: the role of agencies after 20 years of state control.The meeting, which has the objective of discussing the actual function of regulatory agencies in the country, will address topics such as the new regulatory models in infrastructure, the vices and...
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Released by FGV Press, the book A ditadura em tempos de milagre: comemorações, orgulho e consentimento (Dictatorship in times of miracle: celebrations, pride and consent), the historian Janaina Martins Cordeiro addresses the advances and celebrations of Brazil during the years of lead of the dictatorial period. The work's night of autographs...
