Seems to have worked for Porto Alegre, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre#Participatory_budgeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegr

Seems to have worked for Porto Alegre, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre#Participatory_budgeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre#Participatory_bud... > A World Bank paper suggests that participatory budgeting has led to direct improvements in facilities in Porto Alegre. For example, sewer and water connections increased from 75% of households in 1988 to 98% in 1997. The number of schools quadrupled since 1986. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEMPOWERMENT/Resources/14657_Partic-Budg-Brazil-web.pdf http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEMPOWERMENT/Resources/... (English) Seems to also have been implemented in quite some places > By 2001, more than 100 cities in Brazil had implemented PB, while in 2015, thousands of variations have been implemented in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol8/iss2/art8/ http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol8/iss2/art8/ Would be interesting to see how it impacted those places