Barbara Mary Ward in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British

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 economist

Economist

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 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

Sustainable development

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 before this term became familiar and was well-known as a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster.