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On July 30, FGV Projects organized a press conference in partnership with the German Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, to announce the agenda of UrbanTec Brasil, a global conference that will be held in Rio de Janeiro in October.The German consul, Harald Klein, and the president of Fundação Getulio Vargas, Carlos Ivan Simonsen, opened the event....
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FGV Energy held on Thursday, July 30, another Energy in Focus seminar. This edition included the participation of João Carlos de Luca, CEO of Barra Energia and former president of the Brazilian Petroleum Institute (IBP), who addressed the theme Challenges and Opportunities for the oil and gas industry.At the event, De Luca presented data to...
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Prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE), the Weekly Consumer Price Index (IPC-S) of July 31, 2015 presented a 0,53% change ? 0.08 percentage points below the recorded rate of the last disclosure. With this result, the index accumulated an increase of 6.98% in the year, and 9.61% over the past 12 months.In this calculation,...
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Last week, Fundação Getulio Vargas hosted the 9th Meeting of the Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP), with the theme ?Prioritizing life: strategies to reduce homicides in the country?. The purpose of the event was to strengthen dialogue and exchange experiences in order to induce good practice and stimulate debate on public safety. With over...
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Experts from the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) and São Paulo School Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) attended, last week, the 11th Brazilian Congress of Public Health (ABRASCO), which began on Tuesday, July 28, and ended on Saturday, August 1, on the campus of Universidade Federal de Goiás.With the theme...
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Nelson Barbosa, Brazilian Planning Minister, Professor at São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP) and researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE), was the main speaker at the event ?MINDS/ Ford Foundation Conference on Banking, Financial Instability, and Financial Governance in Brazil?, held last Friday, July 24, at São Paulo...
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José Santiago Fajardo Barbachan and Patrick Gottfried Behr, Professors of the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), were elected president and publishing director of the Brazilian Society of Finance (SBFin), respectively. Both will carry out the activities related to the positions for the next two years. ...
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On Monday, August 3, FGV?s São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP), in partnership with Insper and Instituto Unibanco, will hold the event Política Educacional Brasileira - Como pretendemos alcançar os resultados que precisamos? (?Brazilian Educational Policy - How do we intend to achieve the results we need??), at FGV?s Itaú Auditorium....
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The full exercise of democracy is only possible when average citizens understand their rights and duties. However, the complexity of the Brazilian Justice structure sometimes makes its access difficult to those without legal training. Within this context, the book Conhecendo a Justiça brasileira (?Learning about Brazilian Justice?) presents the...
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The enactment of law 12.683, from July 2012, helped to raise awareness of the jewelry marketing sector. With this in mind, São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP), Sebrae, the Council for Financial Activities Control (COAF) and the Brazilian Institute of Gems and Precious Metals (IBGM) came together to create the second edition of a booklet guide...
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The risk-rating agency Standard & Poors (S&P) has disclosed a negative outlook for Brazil?s investment grade rating. With a rating of BBB-, limit of economies with investment grades, the news has alerted for a possible downgrade in the near future, which would indicate a return to the so-called Speculative Grade. This downgrade is, in...
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The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) was launched on Tuesday, July 21, in Shanghai, China. Created as an alternative to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the financial institution was created with the purpose of encouraging the development of the five founding nations ? Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.The...
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Students from Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio) participated in the summer course Summer School of European Private Law, which took place from June 29 to July 11 in Salzburg, Austria. For the first time, the summer school, organized by the Academy for European Private Law in partnership with the University of Salzburg, welcomed...
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Brazil is going through times of major economic challenges. Regardless of size, origin and immediate consequences, it is imperative to analyze the structural imbalances and the prospects for the Brazilian economy in the long-term. This is the objective of the seminar ?Brazil?s Growth Agenda?, organized by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (...
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The 2015 edition of the Executivo de Valor magazine, prepared by the Valor Econômico newspaper, includes a list of 23 top business leaders in Brazil. Among them, six are former students of Fundação Getulio Vargas.Former students of São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP), Gilberto Meirelles Xandó Baptista (CEO...
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FGV will host, on July 28-31, the 9th Meeting of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security (FBSP), which aims to strengthen dialogue and exchange experiences in order to encourage good practices and stimulate debate on public safety.This year, the theme will be ?Prioritizing life: strategies to reduce homicides in the country? and all activities...
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On August 26, Fundação Getulio Vargas will hold the ?International Seminar on Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities? at FGV's main office, in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. With six panels of discussions, the event aims to discuss sustainability in Brazil, focusing on the role of public policy, management and financing, and present...
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This July, the Consumer Confidence Index (ICC), calculated by FGV?s Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE), decreased 2.3%, reaching 82 points. This is the lowest level of the series. ?For the fourth time this year, the ICC has reached a new record low. In 2015, the decline has been influenced by dissatisfaction and pessimism about the...
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Mariana Pargendler, Business Law professor at FGV?s São Paulo Law School (Direito SP), attended the event 18th Annual Law and Business Conference, at Vanderbilt Law School, in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), held earlier this month.The professor presented her paper entitled ?The Corporate Governance Obsession? in which she discusses the current...
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Professors and researchers from FGV?s São Paulo Law School (Direito SP) participated, on September 14-15, in the workshop ?Best Practices in Design and Modeling of Partnerships for the Development of Infrastructure Projects: The British Experience and its Applicability to São Paulo?s Context. The event is part of the project SP Infra, a...
