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"Participatory budgeting" is an expression of more recent participatory development initiatives with an emphasis on citizen participation in economic policy making and budgeting.
To begin answering the question, Why social movements now?, let's pose a counter-question about social movements: Where would we now be without them?
This article is a chapter of the book
Power, Rights, and Poverty: Concepts and Connections, (edited by Ruth Alsop) which is the result of a working meeting sponsored by DFID and the World Bank, March 23–24, 2004.