If you're going to have a "hunter / gatherer" lifestyle, you need a lot of land for it. As people are societal by nature, they form groups or tribes and the need for land grows exponentially. When the land is poor, they need even more. An increase in population (as people are wont to do) eventually will lead to conflict. This can be remedied by reducing population or changing lifestyles to agriculture and (semi)skilled trades.
changing lifestyles requires organization that can only come from forming some type of government or religious control. We've seen all to often what comes of religious control
A government that establishes rules, no matter how harsh, and enforces them, is the first step. People adjust to almost any rules, if they remain constant. And they'll form a stable society no matter how poor they are. Once stable, wealth can be generated and the standard of living raised. But without enforced rules(law) there is no hope for the poverty stricken.
The only right you're born with is the right to struggle to live as well as you can until you die.