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Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, May 1914 – 31 May 1981) 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 policy-makers in the UK, United States and elsewhere. Barbara Ward was born in Heworth, York,

on 23 May 1914, but her family soon moved to Felixstowe.

Her father was a solicitor with Quaker tendencies, while her mother was a

devout Catholic. She attended a convent school

before studying in Paris, first at a lycée,

then for some months at the Sorbonne before going on to Germany. Though she

had once planned to study modern languages, her interest in public affairs led to

a degree course in politics, philosophy, and economics at Somerville College, Oxford

University, from which she graduated in 1935. She did post-graduate work on

Austrian politics and economics. After witnessing antisemitism

there and in Nazi Germany she began to help Jewish refugees,

and mobilise Roman Catholic support for any forthcoming UK

war effort, although she had initially been "sympathetic to Hitler".

With Christopher Dawson, the historian, as leader

and Ward as secretary, the Sword of the Spirit was established as an

organisation to bring together Catholics and Anglicans

opposing Nazism. It became a Roman Catholic group whose policies were promoted

by the Dublin Review, which

Dawson edited, and for which Ward wrote regularly. During the Second World

War, she worked for the Ministry of Information and travelled in

Europe and the US. Partly on the strength of her 1938 book, The

International Share-out, Geoffrey

Crowther, editor of The Economist,

offered her a job. She left the magazine in 1950 having risen to foreign

editor, but continued to contribute articles throughout her life. As well as

writings on economic and foreign policy, her broadcasts on Christian values in

wartime were published as The Defence of the West by Sword of the

Spirit. During this time she was also president of the Catholic Women's League

and a popular panel member of the BBC programme The Brains

Trust which answered listeners' questions. In 1946 she became a

governor of the BBC and of the Old Vic theatre. After the war, Ward was a supporter of the Marshall Plan,

of a strong Europe, and of a European free trade area.  In 1950, Barbara Ward married Australian Commander

Robert Jackson, an administrator for the

United Nations. Their son Robert was born in 1956, the same year that his

father was knighted. Ward continued to use her own name professionally and was

not widely known as Lady Jackson. Over the next few years they lived in West

Africa and made various visits to India, and these experiences helped form

Ward's views on the need for Western nations to contribute to the economic

development of poorer countries. For the next two decades both husband and wife

travelled a great deal, and eventually their marriage suffered from this. A

legal separation was arranged in the early 1970s though Ward, as a Catholic,

did not want divorce. In 1976 when she was given a life peerage

she used her estranged husband's surname for her title as Baroness Jackson of

Lodsworth. Ward had been a frequent public

speaker since leaving university, and by the 1960s her lectures attracted

international respect; several lecture series, including some presented in

Canada, Ghana and India, were published in book form. Ward spent increasing

amounts of time in the US, much of her work there funded by the Carnegie Foundation. In

1957 Harvard University gave her an honorary LittD

and until 1968 she was a Carnegie fellow there, living for part of each year in

Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was elected

a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

in 1966. She got to know Adlai Stevenson and John F

Kennedy and acted as adviser to various influential policy makers,

including Robert McNamara at the World Bank

and Lyndon B Johnson, who welcomed her thoughts on

his Great Society

projects despite her opposition to the Vietnam war.

She influenced James

Wolfensohn's thinking on development questions. She had influence in

the Vatican,

helped set up a pontifical commission for justice and peace, and in 1971 was

the first woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops. One of her proposals was that

richer countries should commit a certain proportion of their GNP in aid to the

developing world, and she also spoke of the need for institutions to enable and

manage both 'aid and trade'. This was a practical as well as an ethical

concern: Ward believed such policies would encourage stability and peace. She

is sometimes called a "distributist".