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Brazil: Toward a More Inclusive and Effective Participatory Budget in Porto Alegre
World Bank. Brazil: Toward a More Inclusive and Effective Participatory Budget in Porto Alegre.
World Bank. Brazil: Toward a More Inclusive and Effective Participatory Budget in Porto Alegre. Report No. 40144-BR. Vol. 1, Main Report. Washington, DC: World Bank, January 29, 2008. https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/778301468019774995.
Why this matters here
The World Bank’s Porto Alegre report describes participatory budgeting assemblies and cites roughly 40,000 participants influencing a substantial share of public investment by the late 1990s. The World We Make Together treats the case as expertise developing through participation rather than as proof that residents suddenly became professional budgeters.
