You can't totally depend your life sustainability on governments, because they will fail you and you will get disappointed, but better still, you should learn to take full confidence in yourself and the ability from what you can delivers, hope in man is vain, some things we ought to do were left undone, how much more are we getting concerned on the affairs of the well-being of others, one need to encourage himself and be bold, less of fear and takes courageous actions towards life and live a determined independent kind of life.
You're right, expecting the government to be disappointed because some officials don't have time to think about the welfare of the citizens but they are busy taking care of big projects to enrich themselves, instead of believing in the government's promises but we better have to work hard to improve history and make life better, so take advantage of every opportunity to work and you will be able to end poverty without help from the government.
There are many factors that affect poverty whether it's from the government or indeed from the people themselves. In some countries there are indeed some governments that have not been optimal in carrying out their duties to eradicate poverty. It is possible that most governments today are good fields for enriching themselves.
Or maybe it is also due to the lack of jobs because the more years the population in a country will increase and the competition between workers will be higher.
And the poverty rate will be high if the citizens are not optimal in their education, causing people with low education to be unable to compete with others so that they become unemployed which causes poverty.
Actually, I admit that it is not easy to eradicate poverty for all citizens if you only rely on the government. It would be better if we also work together with the government to be creative in creating new jobs to help some people who are less fortunate or still in poverty.
We really shouldn't have to rely entirely on the government because our destiny depends on what we do.