CGM Insights
CGM Insights features Policy, Issue, and Research Briefs that share new thinking on governance and human well-being. Produced by scholars around the world, these publications reflect CGM’s role as an impartial research hub for ideas, making complex research accessible.
The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil
ScienceDirect, January 1, 2014
This paper investigates whether the use of participatory budgeting in Brazilian municipalities during 1990–2004 affected the pattern of municipal expenditures and had any impact on living conditions. It shows that municipalities using participatory budgeting favored an allocation of public expenditures that closely matched popular preferences and channeled a larger fraction of their budgets to investments in sanitation and health services.
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Participatory Budgeting: Core principles and Key Impacts
ResearchGate, December 1, 2012
This essay is a reflection piece. I identify key principles at the core of how PB functions and to discuss the scope of change we might expect to see generated by these institutions. I move beyond the idea that there is a specific model or set of “best practices” that define PB. Rather, it is most fruitful to conceptualize PB as a set of principles that can generate social change.
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The model of family empowerment program for community development in West Java, Indonesia
Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, October 31, 2011
Family empowerment is very important, as through empowerment programs the information and knowledge which are key determinants of progress of a society, may be passed on to the next generation. Community education, especially community empowerment which is considered a national investment, is expected to increase human skills, and knowledge of the society. It means that the entire population of Indonesia, regardless of their socio-economic backgrounds, is encouraged to learn and make productive use of knowledge all the time.
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Improving Social Well-Being Through New Democratic Institutions
SageJournals
We evaluate the role of a new type of democratic institution, participatory budgeting (PB), for improving citizens’ well-being. Participatory institutions are said to enhance governance, citizens’ empowerment, and the quality of democracy, creating a virtuous cycle to improve the poor’s well-being.
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