Ward, Barbara (1914-1981), was a British economist and journalist. She became known for her books about the problems of economic development in developing nations. Ward argued for a more even distribution of the world’s economic resources between the industrial and the developing countries. To achieve these goals, she favored international cooperation and programs to control population growth.
Barbara Mary Ward was born on May 23, 1914, in York, England. She attended schools in Paris and in Germany before entering Oxford University in England in 1932. She graduated in 1935.
Ward joined the staff of The Economist, an influential weekly British newspaper, in 1939. In 1950, she married Sir Robert G. A. Jackson, an Australian economist and United Nations official. She received the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974. In 1976, she was made a life peeress (member of the nobility) with the title Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth. She died on May 31, 1981.
Ward wrote numerous books and essays. Her major works include The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1962), Nationalism and Ideology (1967), The Lopsided World (1968), The Home of Man (1976), and Progress For a Small Planet (1979).
