Atentado na França teve repercussão mundial também nas redes sociais

Monitoramento das redes sociais realizado pela Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas da FGV mostra a repercussão do ataque ao Charlie Hebdo pelo mundo. O mapa revela que o caso recebeu grande destaque ao longo do dia, com um alto volume de menções em todas as regiões do mundo, mas predominantemente Europa e EUA. De 9h a 17h (horário de Brasília), foram registradas mais de 4,5 milhões de menções ao caso, com picos de mais de 6 mil tuítes por minuto. A hashtag mais mencionada foi #charliehebdo (2 milhoes), seguida de #jesuischarlie ("eu sou charlie" com 700 mil).

A influência do estoque mundial de açúcar sobre o preço internacional dessa commodit

ABSTRACT Global Sugar market has changed considerably since 1970; the dramatic fluctuations in sugar prices have affected the sugar market worldwide. Therefore, new countries such as Brazil, India, China and Thailand start to invest intensively into this market. In the new scenario, Brazil became the main producer of sugar, as well as the main exporter one. The models considered in this study showed the influence of the main sugar producers and the worldwide stocks against the commodity price behaviour. Firstly, the study showed that ending-stocks have a higher impact in the sugar prices comparing to beginning-stocks, in this case, the main countries that contribute for stocks build-up were Brazil and India. Secondly, this study evaluated the impact of the largest sugar producers against the price, the models concluded that Brazil was the most significant country followed by China. Although the study showed Brazil as the main country which impacts stocks and sugar price; it is important to highlight that other countries are also important in the context to identify the main drivers for the supply and demand dynamics in order to evaluate price levels in response of the production and stocks.

Atrasado no contexto mundial, Brasil estuda agora como atrair imigrantes

Existe um paradoxo que o Governo não discute, nem os estrangeiros que trabalham no país nem os consultores especializados: apesar de necessitar de imigrantes, o Brasil é um país extremamente fechado para eles. Os estrangeiros representam somente 0,3% dos cerca de 200 milhões de habitantes do país, um número historicamente insignificante. A média mundial está em 3%.

O “elo perdido” entre a organização mundial do comércio e o fundo monetário internacional

One of the main objectives of the Bretton Woods negotiations was to guarantee the firm control over competitive exchange rate devaluations, which had worsened the effects of the economic crisis of the 1930s. The par value exchange rate system was thus created, representing a link between the international financial system and the international trading system, guaranteeing, to the latter, the neutrality of the currency issue. The present article analyses how the institutional revolutions suffered by the IMF ended up representing the loss of this link and discusses its consequences to the WTO