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In joining Mission Innovation, 20 of the world's major economies, representing 58% of the world population and over 80% of global clean energy research budgets, have pledged to double their government investment in clean energy research and innovation over the next five years.

Europe has some 4 000 higher education institutions with over 19 million students and 1,5 million employees (teachers and others), cooperating and competing with universities in other parts of the world in the drive to generate and share knowledge, but also with a view to innovating and creating value for the societies of which they are part.

Detailed data are required on: (a) deposit liabilities by subsector and maturity classified further by currency to permit a closer analysis of the developments of the foreign currency components included in the M3 monetary aggregate and to facilitate investigations concerning the degree of substitutability between foreign currency and euro-denominated components of M3; (b) loans by subsector, maturity, purpose, interest rate reset and currency, as this information is considered essential for monetary analysis purposes; (c) positions vis-à-vis other MFIs in so far as this is necessary to allow for netting of inter-MFI balances or to calculate the reserve base; (d) positions vis-à-vis non-euro area residents (rest of the ...[+++]world) for ‘deposits over two years agreed maturity’, ‘deposits redeemable at notice over two years’ and ‘repos’ in order to calculate the reserve base subject to the positive reserve ratio; (e) positions vis-à-vis the rest of the world for total deposit liabilities in order to compile the external counterparts; (f) deposit liabilities and loans vis-à-vis the rest of the world below and above one year original maturity for balance of payments and financial accounts purposes.

In terms of per capita income, eighteen out of the twenty poorest countries in the world are African and the continent is the only part of the developing world where life expectancy has been falling over the last 30 years.

All over the world the way is being paved for a new economy and societies are increasingly driven by information and knowledge. Yet although its citizens are amongst the best educated in the world and its education and training systems rank amongst the best in the world, and although it has the necessary investment capacity, Europe has major weaknesses and is well behind the United States in the use of the new information and communication technologies.

Whereas the situation on the common market in steel has for some months shown a growing imbalance between supply and demand ; whereas increased production capacity both in Community countries and in the other steel-producing countries of the world has intensified competition on the world market ; whereas this has led not only to a fall in exports of steel from the Community, but also, and in particular, to a constant rise in impo ...[+++]rts of iron and steel products from third countries into the Community, creating an over-supply of iron and steel products on the common market;