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Will think tanks become the universities of the 21st century? This is the question that the expert in think tank and innovation Alejandro Chafuen seeks to answer in the article Will Think Tanks Become The Universities Of The 21st Century?, published by Forbes magazine's online version published on May 22. In this edition Chafuen...
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The Center for Studies in Finance (GVcef) at FGV?s School of Business Administration in São Paulo will host, on June 7, an international forum on macroeconomics, MacroMinds 2013. The event will feature a series of lectures on global and local economic factors that can influence the Brazilian stock market and asset categories in Brazil, in...
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On May 22 and 30, Carlos Pereira, Professor at FGV?s School of Public and Business Administration in Rio de Janeiro (EBAPE), participated at the international events, The Federalism and Inequality Project, at the Brown International Advanced Research Institute - Brown University, and Foreign Policy's Latin America Initiative, at the Brookings...
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A lecture by the director of sales and marketing of IMG's Argentine branch (world leader in entertainment and sports marketing), Guillermo Ricaldoni, highlighted the beginning of the third class of the course Management, Marketing and Law in Sports FGV-FIFA-CIES, on May 18 in São Paulo. During his presentation to 80 students, the executive...
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The Management of FGV?s International Affairs Division (DINT) and the International Relations coordinators of FGV's schools held a videoconference to choose four students and a professor who will participate, in July, in the Top China 2013 program. The program, funded by Banco Santander, will take the group to universities in Beijing and...
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On Tuesday, May 15, FGV Projetos and the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce held, in New York, the seminar II World Economy and Brazil. The event took place at the University Club and brought a current view on the behavior of the Brazilian economy, considering the opportunities and critical issues for national performance. The event was...
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The International Relations Center at FGV?s Social Sciences & History School (CPDOC) held, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and NATO Defense College (NDC), the 2nd Europe Day Conference on May 8. The event was also supported by the European Union Delegation in Brazil. The objective - from the theme A...
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A dream that will come true. Tomaz Fiszbaum, a fourth year student at FGV?s Law School in São Paulo (DIREITO GV) will go through this experience for a semester as an intern at UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) headquarters in Paris. Tomaz always dreamed of working at the organization one day, as he...
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On Wednesday, May 15, Fundación Botín ? the main private institution for educational, socioeconomic and cultural actions in Spain - signed an agreement with FGV?s School of Business Administration in São Paulo (EAESP) to include Brazil in its training program for university students from various fields of knowledge, interested in working in...
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Two diverse economies, with totally opposite cultures can indeed learn quite a lot from one another. It was through this thinking that the Brazilian Institute of Economics at FGV (IBRE) and the Institute of Latin American Studies in China have partnered to exchange ideas on important topics such as innovation, social policies and distribution...
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Students from FGV?s Law School in São Paulo (DIREITO GV) won the 1st Edition of the Judicial Simulation Competition before the International Criminal Court (ICC), based at FGV in São Paulo. In total, the winning team gained 97 of a possible 100 points, against the 78 points from the second placed team of Uniritter ? from the city of...
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Slavery was abolished 125 years ago in Brazil, but only in the last ten years real advances against prejudice and discrimination have occurred. That is what Marcelo Neri, Professor at FGV?s Brazilian School of Economics and Finance in Rio de Janeiro, founder of FGV's Center for Social Policies (CPS), president of the Institute for Applied...
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For the first time in history, Brazil, through the Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE) at FGV, presented studies at the Ottawa Group forum ? a United Nations academic event dedicated to improving the methodology for measuring consumer inflation. The 13th edition of the forum took place from May 1-3 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and...
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The Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) at FGV?s School of Business Administration in São Paulo will hold, in partnership with the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Nairobi Programme, the Latin American Forum for Climate Change Adaptation - focusing on the role of the private sector. ...
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It is common to hear that, in Brazil, the laws were made not to be met, or that the Brazilians find a way out of everything, or even that it is very easy to circumvent the rules. Paradoxically, these feelings live with the certainty that a strong democracy and a solid Rule of Law are related to the respect for the established rules. To...
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The ability to generate, attract and retain talent - according to a national development strategy - is one of the main factors that determine the success of countries in terms of their social and economic development in the contemporary world. So says FGV's Public Policy Analysis Board (DAPP) researcher, Francisco Barreto Araújo, commenting on...
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After decreasing for nearly a decade as a result of responsibility and control policies implemented by federal and state governments, fiscal risks are increasing again in Brazil, threatening the hard-won gains in macroeconomic stability and sustainability of public finances in the long run. The warning was made by economist Teresa Ter-Minassian...
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In April, FGV's International Director, Bianor Cavalcanti, and the executive director of the Latin American Public Policy Center, Marlos Lima, participated in a workshop organized by the Latin American Group of Public Administration (GLAP), in the capital of Peru, Lima. During the public session of the Catholic University Sedes Sapientiae,...
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FGV?s International Relations Center, based at the School of Social Sciences (CPDOC), will hold a short course in May on 'History and Politics of the Middle East'. The classes will be taught in English by Jean Marcou, Professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble (Sciences Po Grenoble, France). The course - open to students,...
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On April 16, the mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, was in São Paulo with an entourage of businessmen, politicians and academics of Hamburg School of Business Administration and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) to visit Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). The objectives of the meeting - held by FGV?s School of Economics in São...
