These institutions, which include local government, health and education bodies, represent more than 646 million individuals around the world.
The 24 institutions – which include Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Manchester and Warwick – carry out some of the most highly rated research in the world and have a reputation for academic excellence.
In the United States a distinction exists between commercial banks and so-called thrift institutions, which include savings and loan associations (S&Ls), credit unions, and savings banks.
By contrast, institutions, which include pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds, own more than 92 percent of Google's outstanding shares.
"Mexx is a European fashion answer to stores like the Gap," she said, Many shoppers in the stores, Ms. Consolo said, are students attending nearby educational institutions, which include New York University, the New School University and Parsons School of Design.
The University of Illinois at Chicago (1867), which started as a two-year branch campus for World War II veterans, is the flagship among the public institutions, which include Northeastern Illinois University (1961), Chicago State University (1867), and the seven City Colleges of Chicago.
It has proposed "reserving" about one-half of all the places in centrally financed educational institutions, which include the world famous IITs, for members of disadvantaged castes.Yet, for all its limitations, India's tertiary education is a relative success.
Mr. Taveras called on the city's major tax-exempt institutions — which include four independent colleges and universities and three hospitals — to contribute an additional $7.1 million to the city budget.
Valletta is the centre of many of Malta's cultural institutions, which include the National Museum of Archaeology, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the War Museum, the Manoel Theatre (one of Europe's oldest theatres still in operation), and St. James Cavalier, an old military building that was transformed into an arts centre in 2000.
