Fundao Getulio Vargas
Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) is a Brazilian higher education institution founded on December 20, 1944. It offers regular courses of Economics, Business Administration, Law, Social Sciences and Information technology management. Its original goal was to train people for the country's public- and private-sector management. Other courses began to be offered at the institution grew. It is considered by Foreign Policy magazine to be a top-5 "policymaker think-tank" worldwide. FGV produces a large amount of academic research. The subjects cover macro and micro-economics, finance, business, decision-making, law, health, welfare, poverty and unemployment, pollution, and sustainable development. FGV also offers in-company courses FGV's customers in this area include Caixa Econômica Federal, Banco do Brasil, Banco Itau, Furnas Centrais Eletricas and Rede Ferroviaria Federal, among others.