For an old fashioned formal institution, head to Sweetings Restaurant, opened in 1889 in the City district.

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Just 26% of women in India have an account with a formal financial institution, compared with 46% of men.

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According to UNESCO, a CLC is as a community-based non-formal educational institution or organisation which provides a range of services and learning opportunities to out-of-school children, youth and illiterate or semi-literate adults from socially disadvantaged rural and urban communities.

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What happened in Ireland suggests that formal transfers of bad assets to a new institution can be very expensive indeed.

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What the institution does not have is any desire to do this, or formal legal responsibility (I have explored some of the difficult issues for the ECB here).

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