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Organizing Participatory Budgeting
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Description
An innovation in Brazil, now used in over 100 cities, participatory budgeting involves thousands of citizens in creating the next year's discretionary municipal budget and reviewing its use.
See http://www.internationalbudget.org/conference/2nd/brazil.htm http://www.wwdemocracy.nildram.co.uk/new_visions/real_utopias/porto_alegre.html and other pages available through websearch Also see www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk, for reference to UK work transfering PB from Brazil
