Engaging Citizens

In this chapter, Paul Collier looks at why it matters to build a critical mass of citizen understanding so that countries can take decisions that harness resources for sustained prosperity with citizens as part of the solution. He reviews the task of citizens in the economic decision chain, which is to reinforce the rules and institutions which a government authorizing environment needs to build, and this is supported with an example from the Eurozone. He focuses on three things that citizens should understanding, but typically do not; ownership of natural resources, expectations of the worth of natural resources and value per person, and stewardship.

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