Are the causes of poverty located primarily at the individual and national levels?
Or are the ultimate causes more of an international nature, including global market forces?

Should national governments be allowed to abandon the poor and vulnerable
to the vagaries of national and international markets?
Or do governments have a solemn duty to protect human rights enshrined
in most constitutions?

Do national governments have the will and capacity to resist the inexorable
impetus of neoliberal globalisation?
Or are most governments capitulating to the combined might of global capitalists and
transnational corporations aided and abetted by multilateral organisations like
the World Bank, IMF and WTO?