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DIED. Barbara Ward, 67, British economist and author who made the case for Western aid to developing Third World countries in such books as The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1962) and Progress for a Small Planet (1980); of cancer; in Lodsworth, England. A onetime assistant editor of the Economist and the wife of the Australian diplomat Commander Sir Robert Jackson, Ward became an influential adviser on international economics to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The technologically and economically advanced nations "are remaking the face of the earth," she once wrote...
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