Depletion of aquifers is a looming tragedy. New agreements offer hope CLEMENT weather and plentiful water mean that Punjab produces an eighth of India’s total food […]
Nice voting machines; shame about the candidates THE whizzy electronic ballot boxes that Brazil uses for elections meant that most results were announced before bedtime on […]
Emerging markets are teeming with young entrepreneurs GLOBALS is one of those fast-growing Indian IT companies that Westerners simultaneously admire and fear. Founded in 2000, it […]
Finance ministers, central bankers and big-deal financiers have arrived in Washington for the annual Oktoberfest of economic policy-making, and in case you couldn’t tell from the […]
At the beginning of this week the government announced it was doubling the tax on foreigners putting money in fixed income investments [which are very attract […]
Se há tópico polêmico nas discussões globais sobre política econômica, este é o da “Guerra Cambial”, como sugeriu o ministro da Faenda – Guido Mantega. Sem […]
Por votação unânime, o Plenário Virtual do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) reconheceu repercussão geral no Recurso Extraordinário (RE) 630137, interposto pelo Instituto de Previdência do estado […]
O presidente do Banco Central (BC), Henrique Meirelles, disse que uma combinação de políticas dos Estados Unidos (EUA), economia europeia e câmbio fixo na China levaram […]
O Imposto sobre Produtos Industrializados (IPI) não pode ser descontado do valor das mercadorias na hora de se calcular a comissão dos representantes comerciais. A Quarta […]
Vietnam Defence Minister General Pham Van Tra and Brazilian Defence Minister Jose Viegas Filho have discussed ways to enhance military co-operation between their co-operation between their […]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is open to develop all-out economic ties with the Latin American nations and Cuba, […]
O Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) decidiu acabar com “discrepâncias absurdas” na cobrança de custas judiciais pelos tribunais em todo o País. A meta é uniformizar […]
The world is shifting into a “dangerous” phase of unilateralism in currency and trade relations, the world’s leading banks have warned after a fractious summit of […]
Why did China, India and Brazil all emerge so much more rapidly from the global financial crisis than advanced economies did? In a presentation in Denver […]
Latin America has had its fair share of women leaders. (Think Argentina’s infamous Eva Peron, Chile’s first woman President Michelle Batchelet, and Argentina’s Cristina Kouchner). But […]
A instituição financeira deve indenizar o cliente vítima de fraude bancária, mesmo que o dolo tenha sido cometido por terceiros. Com esse entendimento, 2ª Turma Recursal […]
Brazilian presidential frontrunner Dilma Rousseff accused her opponent Jose Serra of spreading “lies” about her views on abortion, and the two candidates clashed over past sales […]
Mantega fala em “arma oculta” e defende financiamento de longo prazo, além de maior endividamento das famílias. O ministro da Fazenda, Guido Mantega, disse ontem em […]