Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson British economist and writer
Also known as: Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Table Of Contents : May 23, 1914, York, Eng. Also Known As: Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson was a British economist and writer. After studying economics at the University of Oxford , she became a writer and editor at The Economist (from 1939). She married Robert Jackson in 1950. She was an influential adviser to the Vatican, the UN, and the World Bank , and she wrote numerous articles and books on the worldwide threat from poverty among less-developed countries (she advocated the transfer of wealth from rich to poor countries) and the importance of conservation; her books, which reached a wide audience, included The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1962), Spaceship Earth (1966), Only One Earth (with René Dubos , 1972), and Progress for a Small Planet (1980).
