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Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- South Africa's Lessons in Progress -- The Landscape in 1994 -- Economic and Social Transformation, 1994-2014 -- Building Inclusive Public Sector Institutions and Implementing Institutional Reforms -- Cross-Cutting Lessons and Challenges Ahead -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Developing an Intergovernmental Fiscal Framework -- Introduction -- The Policy Challenge -- Addressing the Challenge -- Results Achieved -- Conclusions: Success Factors, Challenges, and Lessons Learned -- Notes

"....a most interesting report. I have read it with considerable interest, and have learned a lot. It tells a clear story, and it contains a lot of interesting material."- Anthony Atkinson, Professor Nuffield CollegeOxford University, United Kingdom "The key conclusion of the report is that rapid economic growth is fundamentally important for job creation and, consequently, reducing poverty."- Ewa Balcerowicz, President of the BoardCenter for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland While the countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union have made significant

South Africa has achieved a lot on its path of socio-economic transformation since the end of Apartheid in 1994. While many challenges remain to foster inclusive growth to address the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty, and inequality, some innovative approaches have been used to build more inclusive public institutions. These have helped to expand service delivery, strengthen quality, and improve the lives of millions of South Africans. Although much is known about the motivation and nature of the policies and institutional changes that drove this transformation, very little is known of the manner in which they were executed. With this book, Making It Happen, From Policies to Implementation, we offer a selection of twelve case studies to illustrate how policies and institutions were developed and implemented to improve specific public services. Done through interviews with senior policy makers, the book captures the how to of executing these policies in a variety of areas including increasing budget transparency, developing an intergovernmental fiscal system, strengthening tax administration, developing a modern performance monitoring and evaluation system, expanding HIV/AIDS treatment, reforming the social transfer system, strengthening statistics, creating a modern national identity system, developing a system for the management of biodiversity, modernizing the national road network management, developing the framework for renewable energy, and the formulation of the country's much lauded constitution.

Key factors affecting satisfaction with life in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- Employment, sources of income, and the poor in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- Satisfaction with publicly provided health services in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union