Power erases poverty?

Daily Nation from Kenya says "Poverty is not lack of money, or indeed, of jobs. Poverty is the lack of power to determine one’s own destiny. Where that power is present, jobs and money will also be present".

This statement can make one philosophical, may be people get PhDs on it because it is talking about poverty and power thus open ways for one to think right from economics to society to politics to globalization and what not. My brain coined "Economic Crusade" - millions of them led by people, (entrepreneurs....) will start looking for power to get ideas and money thus. There will be hundreds and thousands of enterprises all over, people will use all management tricks. There will be consultants in galore teaching people how to earn power for ideas, which will be a push for these crusades. Hey, if there is crusade there will be blood - economic blood of ideas and all of us will see crusades in light of market dynamics which is cyclic. It is all cyclic.

Well.... the notion of people start thinking about "how to get out of poverty" is noble, but most of them have not done this in thousand years. DN's this philosophy sounds naive to me or it wrote power, while it meant Self confidence, which surely can result in ideas. And ideas are important. One can say power gives self confidence, but power is notorious too. Let self confidence generate power!