As Mr. Zumbado said, we should be the critical part of the state. Parliamentarians exist in a critical relationship with the executive and as much as the state can do things, we have to define very sharply what the state can do to further development. We all agree that the state cannot do as much as we thought it could do in the nineteen sixties and seventies. However, we the parliamentarians need to ensure that the state does its part as well as preventing the state from doing things it should not do. We make decisions by regions and states and so on, but that is not the right way to think about human development.
Human development is what people do in their daily lives.
And in doing these things, people encounter both opportunities and obstacles. The opportunities encountered are basically created in this enabling environment - job opportunities, access to assets, the fact that people do not face discrimination in hiring however, women especially do face discrimination in hiring. Recently for example, I took part in a debate in India. For the poor people of the world, there is no choice but to sell their labour on the market. You and I have the luxury of guaranteed jobs with inflation indexed salaries.