Things do not look so superb for the Brazilian research industry. Following the government’s decision to introduce spending cuts to avoid a sovereign credit downgrade, the Agency for Higher Education Development (CAPES) announced a 75% cut in its Postgraduate Research Support Program (PROAP). Brazil has been adopting the austere treatment with spending to deal with inflation and other internal issues and to achieve a 1.2% budget surplus in 2015. Continue reading Economic freeze in Brazil directly affects research funding and expenditure