Ward, Michael, 1939-2008 (Personal Name)

Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n 77000293

His The measurement of capital, c1976: t.p. (Michael Ward)

Social mobility profiles and integrated household surveys in developing countries, 1983: t.p. (Michael Ward)

BL letter from author, 25 Oct. 1988 (Michael Peter Ward, born 17 July 1939)

The role of investment in the development of Fiji, 1971: t.p. (Michael Ward)

Identifying the poor, 1999: t.p. (M. Ward)

The Guardian, 13 Nov. 2008: obit., Michael Ward (Michael Peter Ward, international statistician and economist, born 17 July 1939; died 18 October 2008; creator of economic statistical systems for developing countries; born in Hammersmith, south-west London; his first appointment was as a statistician in central Africa; he was senior research officer at the department of applied economics at Cambridge; he also served as director of studies in economics and dean of Selwyn College, Cambridge; spent two years from 1967 in Fiji as it moved towards independence, establishing the first bureau of statistics as well as providing advice to Tonga and other islands in the western Pacific; from 1972 to 1975, was in Lesotho, shortly after independence, where he provided statistical support and advice to most of the countries of southern Africa; then appointed a fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, in Sussex, from 1975 to 1982; after this, moved for three years to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to work on comparisons of national accounts; in 1985, joined the World Bank in Washington DC, serving until 2000 as principal economist in operations and policy areas; publications include "The measurement of capital", "National expenditure and real expenditures in OECD countries", "Quantifying the world")