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...Brazil’s productivity — the output per hour worked, crucial to raising a nation’s prosperity — grew by just 0.5 per cent annually in the four decades to 2022, according to the Getúlio Vargas Institute....
...Another declaration vowing to defeat attempts to overturn an election gathered more than one million signatures, including those of Pedro Moreira Salles and Roberto Setubal, co-chairs of Brazil’s biggest...
...The incident occurred just a week after Roberto Jefferson, another Bolsonaro ally, fired shots at federal police who were attempting to uphold a warrant for his arrest....
...Roberto Jefferson, who was detained last year as part of an investigation into “antidemocratic digital militias”, was found to have breached the terms of his house arrest by using social media to compare...
...After a long spell with the great Edith Grossman, then Natasha Wimmer (the translator of Roberto Bolaño), Vargas Llosa has turned to the American novelist Adrian Nathan West to translate Harsh Times....
...Federal police have also arrested several individuals for making death threats against Moraes, including two prominent pro-government politicians, Daniel Silveira and Roberto Jefferson....
...The move has, nonetheless, raised eyebrows given that under the leadership of Roberto Campos Neto, the central bank has been a strong supporter of “open banking” and a deregulated environment for fintechs...
...Brazil is poised to give its central bank independence from political control in a move spearheaded by the bank’s US-educated president Roberto Campos Neto to shore up its reputation with international investors...
...High-profilers spotted on the island include Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, Jon Kortajarena, Cesc Fàbregas, Roberto Cavalli and Mario Vargas Llosa, not to mention the Wirths, Iwan and Manuela, whose forthcoming...
...Mr Guedes has made market-friendly appointments, including fellow University of Chicago alumni Roberto Castello Branco as head of state-owned oil company Petrobras and Joaquim Levy, a former finance minister...
...“The stabbing may increase the empathy vis-à-vis Bolsonaro,” said Roberto Simon, senior director for policy at the Council of the Americas....
...A graduate from São Paulo’s Fundação Getúlio Vargas, his father Fernão Bracher, a former central bank president, founded Banco BBA Creditanstalt, an investment bank bought by Itaú in 2002....
...The Oxford-educated political analyst Matias Spektor with the Getúlio Vargas Foundation reflected: “After tonight the government will present itself as strong and stable, á la Theresa May....
...“In all probability, Brazil will not have a legitimate and stable government during the games,” says Rafael Alcadipani, an academic at Getulio Vargas Foundation....
...It is a late summer day of gentle sun and high scudding clouds when I push open the gate at Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and walk up his garden path....
...I was invited to present the framework in April 2004 to Roberto Lavagna, then finance minister; Nielsen made it a point that Hans-Jörg Rudloff, chairman of Barclays, attended the meeting in Buenos Aires....
...That, explained local guide Roberto Vargas Silva, could be about to change. A cable car is being planned to whisk visitors up the mountain in minutes....
...According to Brazil‟s Getulio Vargas Foundation, an independent think tank, Uruguay is ranked the top Latin American country in terms of the quality of its business environment....
...The new regime led by Roberto Micheletti accuses Venezuela of meddling in its internal affairs and sending agitators to stir up unrest....
...remains the most conspicuous figure to emerge from the Latin American fiction “boom” of the 1960s and 1970s that also brought international fame to authors such as Mexico’s Carlos Fuentes, Peru’s Mario Vargas...
...Carlos Roberto Longo, director of FGV Online, says the partnership will give participants access to programmes with a global relevance....
...The PRI dominates more local legislatures than any other party and continues to have the largest number of governors, but Roberto Madrazo, the party’s presidential candidate in last July’s vote, failed to...
...Anything-Domingo-can-sing-I-can-sing-higher award: To Roberto Alagna as Cyrano, with, yes, Domingo in the pit....
...“The cause of the crisis is fundamentally that Mr Kirchner has followed a neo-populist road,” says Carlos Langoni of the São Paulo-based Getulio Vargas Foundation think-tank....
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