So it means they could have cured poverty at any point in the last 60 years. They could have cured it but they didn't they just took the people's money and pissed it down the drain.
So now we know that we should remind them every few months. Cure poverty or we burn your houses down. Cure poverty if you want to see your child again. That sort of thing.
Sorry government the secrets out now, you have 10,000 baht of tax payers money for every person in Thailand just laying around.