I could say that there is no proven link that giving people large amounts of money helps them to get out of poverty and site the fact that ~70% of lottery winne

I could say that there is no proven link that giving people large amounts of money helps them to get out of poverty and site the fact that ~70% of lottery winners end up broke. Of course my statement is nonsense. Giving people large amounts of money directly and immediately, by definition, gets them out of poverty. The point here is that when something is failed to be utilized it must be considered that the fault lay not with the 'something' but the person or persons who failed. A great example of this is a semi-isolated tribe in South America. They had little to no technology and a number of researchers decided to introduce them to some 'modern' technology. One of these bits of technology was to teach them how to make canoes enabling them to navigate the waters in greater safety and efficiency. And they absolutely understood and were able to make these canoes helping the researchers do just that. Yet for whatever reason, once the researchers left and the canoes began to fall apart instead of maintaining them or building new ones they simply began to use them as drift-wood flotation devices and then eventually as that failed, went back to traversing the waters completely manually. Education is a path to success, but it's up to the individual or collection of individuals to use it.