'Sub-Saharan Africa Pays Out $30 Million Every Day Servicing Debt, and 30 Million People Have Aids. That Money Could Make a Real Difference'; the Political Interview Global Debt Campaigner Noreena Hertz Explains Her Mission to Torcuil Crichton

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WHEN Bono is locked in the recording studio and Geldolf has childminding duties who can you call on to solve the world's debt crisis? Noreena Hertz that's who. If you haven't heard of the Cambridge academic, you will as soon as the global agenda moves off the war on terror and on to the war on poverty, the root cause of much of the violence and political upheaval across the planet.

Global injustice, neo-colonial exploitation and economic reorganisation are Hertz's stock in trade which, believe it or not, she turns in to compelling prose. Politicians sound like automated answering machines when they talk about the mechanics of debt relief. Hertz makes it all simple, straightforward and imperative.

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'Sub-Saharan Africa Pays Out $30 Million Every Day Servicing Debt, and 30 Million People Have Aids. That Money Could Make a Real Difference'; the Political Interview Global Debt Campaigner Noreena Hertz Explains Her Mission to Torcuil Crichton

She is one of those academics who distinguishes herself by living in the real world and connecting easily with its media arm to get her message across. She combines intelligence, girly charm and serious economics into a clarion call for global change.

After the success of Silent Takeover, her 2001 book on corporate globalism, the 35-year-old became the darling of the anti- globalisation movement, in constant demand in television stu...

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