you can disagree with my point but I chose to believe that all challenges are opportunities, thats how I am wired.
a Government can try to ensure equality and equal opportunity for its citizen but how do you safeguard that promise? even Nanny and Big brother governments wont guarantee that, i tell you. Otherwise, if everyone has equal opportunity how many will take the opportunity to better themselves? some people are happy to just sit and blame everything for their lack of ambition, and thats why i always say, poverty is "mindset". If the gov tomorrow decides to divide all country resources in equal measures, it will take less than a week for some to start complaining they need more.
It always good to take note of some achievements and use them as a lesson, probably its not a good idea to though in a national holiday when mere 5000 out of 47 million people become successful but it's something we can look at and take note, how did these people make it? against all odds?
I am also a believer that a government should fix "all" poverty, government main role is to empower its citizen to create jobs etc. you will be amazed with all technology available government will need to fewer and fewer people in its departments, so where will the job creation come from? from normal individuals/citizens.