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Supporting Post-conflict Democratic Development? External Promotion of Participatory Budgeting in El Salvador

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Summary The following pages provide, first, a rare examination of the external promotion of participatory budgeting (PB), in this case through US-financed local government development projects in post-war El Salvador from 1994 to 2005. Second, I examine the success of the PB activity by investigating the degree to which PB has been sustained nearly five years after its initial utilization. I compare this case of external PB promotion against endogenously developed Latin American PB experience. External practitioners face the same constraints as those advocating home-grown efforts. PB's sustainability and benefits are circumscribed, I find, yet such gains are nonetheless important.

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  • Bland, Gary, 2011. "Supporting Post-conflict Democratic Development? External Promotion of Participatory Budgeting in El Salvador," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 39(5), pages 863-873, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:39:y:2011:i:5:p:863-873
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