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BRICS: Challenges and Opportunities 

The future of the BRICS economies: the geopolitical strategy of China, the diversity and economic integration among the BRICS, structural transformation, the growth challenges and the reform agenda of China and India, the opportunities for Brazil.
 

June 9, 2015

2:30 - 3:00 pm - Opening

Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal - President FGV

Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira - FGV/EPGE and FGV Growth & Development

Rubens Penha Cysne - Dean FGV/EPGE

3:00 - 4:00 pm - The BRICS economies: dissimilarities and commonalities

João Victor Issler - FGV/EPGE and FGV Growth & Development (Presentation)

Roberto Castello Branco - FGV Growth & Development (Presentation)

4:00 - 4:30 pm - Coffee break

4:30 - 6:30 pm - Panel discussion on geopolitics

Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal - President FGV

Jonathan Fenby - Trusted Sources; (Presentation)

Octavio Amorim Neto - FGV/EBAPE; (Presentation)

Oliver Stuenkel - FGV/CPDOC and Global Public Policy Institute

June 10, 2015

9:00 - 11:00 am - The economic relationship between China and Latin America

Murilo Ferreira - CEO of Vale and Chairman of Petrobras; (Presentation)

Maurício Mesquita Moreira - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); (Presentation)

11:00 - 11:30 am - Coffee break

11:30 am - 01:30 pm - India and South Africa: growth challenges and prospects

Eswar Prasad - Cornell University, Brookings Institution and FGV Growth & Development ; (Presentation)

Jean-François Brun - Université d'Auvergne, CERDI and FGV Growth & Development; (Presentation)

01:30 - 3:00 pm - Lunch

3:00 - 5:00 pm: Brazil and China: growth challenges and prospects

Yang Yao - China Center for Economic Research, National School of Development, Peking University

Fernando Veloso - FGV/IBRE and FGV Growth & Development; (Presentation)