Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (died 1981)
Barbara Ward
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share their prosperity with the rest of the world and in the 1960s turned her attention to environmental questions as well. She was an early advocate of sustainable development before this term became familiar and was well known as a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Ward was adviser to policymakers in the UK, United States and elsewhere.
Born
1914
May 23
Died
1981
Era
1910s
Country
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