And some governments – notably the US and Japan – have trouble participating in multi-year commitments that represent a fiscal contingency.
The Paris-based thinktank notes the budget deficit has been "significantly reduced since the peak of 2009, but at a slower pace recently notably as growth has been insufficiently tax-rich".
Let's not forget that Miley's insta-historic VMAs performance last year drew outraged comment from many quarters, but perhaps most notably from the creator of the foam finger himself, who claimed she had demeaned his oversized invention.
Tsotie's habitual warm smile is notably absent as she talks about the erstwhile occupant of room number six.
Schlesinger's attitude to work made him impatient with fellow British directors, notably Lindsay Anderson (obituary, September 1 1994), whom he considered over-selective and unable (or, as he said, unwilling) to work regularly.
Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising that his main professional relationships seem to be with people from the other side of the camera: Most notably, Ken Loach, Antonia Bird (Safe, Priest, and the forthcoming East End gangster drama Face) and Danny Boyle (Trainspotting).
Features is my favourite strand of radio, and there have been some crackers this year, most notably Heel, Toe, Step Together (December, Radio 4), a tenderly composed programme about an unlikely dancing friendship.
"After many fantastic years with the BBC, I'm delighted to be helping to lead the ITV team responsible not just for breaking some of the UK's most significant stories - notably the Jimmy Savile scandal - but also for making the most consistently popular Current Affairs TV programming in the UK," said Giles.
Behind the scenes, the company was forging ahead: Antony Tudor continued as the most significant choreographer, Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins made some of the defining works of ballet Americana (Fall River Legend, Fancy Free), George Balanchine created his masterly Theme and Variations, and a generation of American-trained dancers, notably Nora Kaye and Alicia Alonso, emerged.
Indeed, it has resulted in bloodshed on a number of occasions so far, most notably in Mariupol last Friday, when at least eight people died when the national guard entered the city to clear the police station of separatist fighters.
There was an impulse towards supra-nationalism in the shape of membership in the European Union, where countries that had fought each other for centuries – notably France and Germany – agreed to cooperate in the new world of superpower blocs.
