FGV publishes the Underground Economy Index

By ETCO

Source: JB Online - RJ - ECONOMY - 01/12/2009

Agency Brazil

RIO - The Brazilian Institute of Economics (Ibre) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and the Brazilian Institute of Competition Ethics (ETCO) release today (1st), at 11 am, the Underground Economy Index. There will be a press conference at the institution's headquarters in Botafogo, in Rio.

The economics professor and researcher Fernando de Holanda Barbosa Filho will present the data, as well as the numbers of the historical series of the index, starting in March 2003. Also participating in the conference is the president of the ETCO Advisory Council, former minister Marcílio Marques Moreira , the director of Ibre, Luiz Guilherme Schymura, and the head of the Center for Economic Growth of Ibre, Samuel de Abreu Pessoa.