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Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO) is accepting, until the end of March, applications for the Continuing Education Courses (CEC). The executive short-term programs, directed at developing skills of undergraduate students in various fields of knowledge, focusing on a deep articulation of technical and academic aspects of law related...
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The PhD student of the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Karina Furtado, participated, on February 11, in a videoconference with the World Bank in which she discussed the Law on Access to Information (LAI) and the bargaining process with the military in Brazil.Egypt has been trying to pass a law on access to...
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The undergraduate students of the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) held last week, February 13, the solidarity initiative Lei Seca (Dry Law) Operation - Please Cooperate. Organized by the School's Academic Directory of Administration (DAA), the action - where freshmen distributed 5,000 flyers and pins about the...
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FGV's Library System (SB-FGV) is offering, starting this week, a new website and a new management system for its library collections.According to SB-FGV's director, Marieta de Moraes Ferreira, the layout was completely restructured to facilitate the search of bibliographic material by the student or researcher. The interface is more friendly...
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Summer inflation - the average of prices of the main products and services most used in the season - increased 8.61% this year, higher than the accumulated inflation in the same period from 2012 to 2013. That's what the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) indicates, based on data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI-BR), which is at 5.61...
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The Center for Sustainability Studies of the São Paulo School of Business Administration (GVces /EAESP) has just released on FGV's Youtube channel the documentary Imagem de Nós (A Picture of Us) - a production by Enlace group, of the 8th edition of the Integrated Education for Sustainability (FIS).The film intends...
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On February 10, São Paulo Law School (FGV DIREITO SP) held - in partnership with Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), the Law School of Ribeirão Preto (USP-FDRP) and The Institute of International Relations (IRI-USP) - the second edition of the workshop of the collaboration network on Global Law...
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The Ifo/FGV Indicator of Economic Climate in Latin America (ICE) of January - prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) and the German Institute based on data from the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES) - increased by 8% after remaining stable for the last two surveys (July and October 2013). However, among the 11 surveyed...
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Yesterday, during a ceremony at Palácio da Guanabara (seat of the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro), the release of the Dicionário da História Republicana do Rio de Janeiro (Dictionary of the Republican History of Rio de Janeiro) took place - organized by the sociologist and researcher at the School of Social Sciences...
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Students of the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Marianna Miele and Daniela Martins, were selected for the program Face to face with Warren Buffett, held from January 29 to February 4, in the United States. The selection process attracted over 600 submissions from various educational institutions, resulting in...
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Two in every hundred Brazilians over the age of 60 who are looking for employment cannot find it. The elderly population is experiencing full employment - the total of employed persons in this group increased by almost 7% between 2012 and 2013. For Fernando de Holanda Barbosa Filho, researcher in the field of Applied Economics of the Brazilian...
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Even with the decrease in grain prices and the possible negative impact on the demand for biofuels in the medium term, 2014 is likely to be positive for agribusiness in Brazil. That's what the professor of São Paulo School of Economics (EESP) and coordinator of GVAgro, Roberto Rodrigues, stated in an interview to the newspaper Valor Econômico....
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Last Friday, February 7, São Paulo Law School (FGV DIREITO SP) was visited by Antonio Cezar Peluso, former minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), who attended the graduation ceremony of its 5th graduating class. Peluso was the first sponsor chosen who is not a member of the faculty of the School.This choice is in line with the...
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FGV's director of Academic Integration and Provost of Teaching, Research and Graduate Studies, Antonio Freitas, is in Puerto Rico this week to participate in debates on the educational system and entrepreneurship in the country. Freitas is a special guest of the event ?Reforma educativa: berço de empreendedores e empresários?? (?Educational...
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Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO) welcomes Diego de Freitas Aranha today, February 12, an expert on Cryptography and Computer Security who will discuss the security of the electronic voting system used in Brazil.Diego Aranha is the former coordinator of the first team of independent researchers capable of detecting and exploiting...
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Seven out of ten Brazilians who start a business take the initiative because they've identified an opportunity to earn money as business owners. This is one of the conclusions of the survey Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - held in Brazil in partnership with the Entrepreneurship and New Business Centre (GVCenn) of São Paulo School of...
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Last week, students of the first class of the International Master in Finance (IMF) - intensive professional master developed by São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP) and the New School of Business and Economics of Portugal (Nova SBE) - were welcomed in London by the partner institution of the program, Cass Business School.At the British...
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The junior company of undergraduate students at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro (FGV Jr.) is welcoming until February 16 submissions from students interested in joining the organization that serves companies of different sizes and types - especially micro, small and medium-size businesses.Currently there is no specification as to the...
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The professor of São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP), Samy Dana, presents, in his column Caro Dinheiro, for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, an alternative barely known by Brazilians with planned expenses in foreign currency that need to protect themselves from exchange rate changes: the exchange rate mini contract, also called Dólar Mini...
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São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP), FGV Projetos and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) just held the First Brazilian Conference Series on Public Procurement and Concession Design - series of conferences held in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília with the aim of encouraging research applied to public...


