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Despite being one of the most difficult countries to start a new business in, Brazil has the third largest community of entrepreneurs in the world. This is one of the conclusions of the study Encouraging Entrepreneurship: Brazil's Bid in Latin America, by FGV's graduate student Lee Catherine Booker, and published by the Journal of International...
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Director of FGV?s Law School in São Paulo (DIREITO GV), Oscar Vilhena Vieira, participated in the Third Meeting of the Latin American Initiative for Law and Democracy (Iladd), which ended on April 26, at the College of Law at Universidad de Buenos Aires. DIREITO GV's Professors Ronaldo Porto Macedo Júnior and Rubens Glezer were also present. ...
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FGV?s International Relations Center, based at the School of Social Sciences /CPDOC promoted a lecture with Russian Ambassador Sergey Akopov, on Monday, April 22, to talk about the importance of Russia in the BRICS. The event also counted on comments by International Relations Professor and CPDOC's coordinator in São Paulo, Oliver Stuenkel, and...
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On April 22, FGV DIREITO RIO's Law Professor, Fernando Fontainha, participated in the seminar Ethnography of contemporary elites organized by Professor Sylvain Laurens, from EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris), France. He gave a lecture on Ethnography of judicial elites. Professor Fernando Fontainha talked about his...
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On April 17, FGV welcomed a delegation of 12 Danish executives. The visit was organized by the Royal Danish Embassy with the objective of discussing the administration, and public and private management in Brazil. At the event, FGV?s strategic points were presented, as well as the academic programs of EBAPE, IDE and DINT, and international...
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Nigeria?s Agriculture Minister, Akinwumi Ayo Adesina - considered by UN's secretary-general as one of the 20 greatest supporters of the Millennium Goals and great enthusiast in the fight against hunger and poverty - met with FGV Projetos' directors and representatives of the Gates Foundation on April 11-12, in São Paulo, to learn about the...
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On April 8 to 12, the Global Law Program at DIREITO GV, FGV?s Law School in São Paulo, offered a short-duration course with the theme 'The Laws of Economics and International Business Transactions', taught by Peter Sester - professor at the Institute for Law and Finance at the University of Frankfurt. Aimed at students at the end of their...
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FGV?s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE), in Rio de Janeiro, will participate in the 3rd International Doctoral Consortium, to be held on June 3-5 at Sobey School of Business at Queen Mary University in Canada. The School was invited by professor Alexandre Faria - Chair of the Critical Management Studies...
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Business Law Professor at DIREITO GV, FGV?s Law School in São Paulo, Danilo Borges, traveled to Italy to attend the seminar The regulation of the capital markets in Brazil and Italy: A comparative international analysis, on April 19 and 20. The seminar is organized by DIREITO GV and Fondazione Bruno Visentini, from Italy, and sponsored by...
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The routes covered by history in our country, the debates about the social role of historians and to what extent history is taught in universities must be attuned to social demands. These are some of the issues that professor Marieta de Moraes Ferreira - director of Editora FGV and FGV's Library System - raises in her new book History as a...
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The article The Impact of the Sense of Security from Crime on Residential Property Values in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas by a professor at FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE), Kaizô Beltrão, was published by the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) - the largest source of financing for development in Latin...
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Private investment in social projects is carried out, in most cases, without a management plan. Therefore, FGV's São Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP), in partnership with the Institute for the Development of Social Investment (Idis) offers the course Leadership and Management of Private Social Investment, beginning in August. ...
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Editora FGV, through Movimento do Bem, just donated copies of the Manual of NGOs: a practical guide to legal guidance - a non-profit network that helps, through donations from individuals and corporations, institutions (philanthropic or not)...
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As a result of the Training Program in Public Equipment Management, developed and customized by FGV Online for the Ministry of Culture (MinC), it received the trophy Successful Initiatives as part of the Learning & Performance Award Brazil 2013/2014 - awarded by Micropower to the most innovative and successful projects in the field of...
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In June, the coordinator of FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School, Thiago Bottino, attended the seminar Capital flight, which took place at the Brazilian Lawyers Institute (IAB). The event discussed the need for a reform of the economic criminal law for this type of financial crime. Capital flight is also the subject of an article published in May by...
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The professor at FGV's São Paulo School of Economics (EESP), Samy Dana, will give a free lecture on Wednesday, July 3, at Centro de Integração Empresa Escola (CIEE) in São Paulo. At the event, Samy will talk about the credit pitfalls deriving from trade, such as the installments with embedded interests. After the lecture, the attendants will...
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FGV Projetos and the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP) will hold on Wednesday, July 3, in São Paulo - Brazil, the seminar The Future of Energy and Nuclear Generation. The event is part of the work developed by FGV Projetos on the expansion of electricity supply in Brazil and nuclear generation. The event shall gather...
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FGV's São Paulo Law School - in partnership with the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, the Law and the New Developmental State (LANDS) Network, the University of Wisconsin and the University of São Paulo (USP) - promotes, on July 1-4, the meeting Law and New Development Strategies: Brazil and Beyond. Restricted to...
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The Trade Confidence Index (ICOM), calculated by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE), recorded an average for the quarter ended in June 3% lower than in the same period in 2012, from 126.4 to 122.5 points. Despite the decrease, the Institute points out that there was a slight evolution, considering the 3.6% decrease of the indicator...
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On June 26, Professor at FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School, Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, participated in the Regional Conference of Open Data for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Montevideo, Uruguay. He talked about the Internet Civil Landmark - a project that provides principles, guarantees, rights and duties for Brazilian Internet users...
