Fundação Getúlio Vargas Fundação Getúlio Vargas Fundação Getúlio Vargas ("Getulio Vargas Foundation", often abbreviated as FGV) is a Brazilian higher education institution and think tank founded on December 20, 1944, with a mission "To stimulate Brazil’s socioeconomic development". Its initial objective was to prepare qualified people to work in public and private administration in Brazil. FGV is considered by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the "University of Pennsylvania" as top think tank in Latin America, best managed think tank worldwide and seventh best think tank in the world. FGV offers undergraduate programs, graduate & MBA programs, as well as Master's
Vargas Era grievances with ruling regime in the Northeast and Rio Grande do Sul, Getúlio Vargas chose João Pessoa of the Northeast state of Paraíba as his vice-presidential candidate in 1930. With the understanding that the dominance of the landowners in the rural areas was to continue under Liberal Alliance government, the Northeastern oligarchies were thus integrated into the Vargas alliance in a subordinate status via a new political party, the Social Democratic Party (PSD). As a candidate in 1930, Vargas utilized populist rhetoric to promote middle class concerns, thus opposing the primacy (but not the legitimacy) of the paulista coffee oligarchy