Margaret Wolfson obituary

My aunt, Margaret Wolfson, who has died aged 98, was a pioneering female figure in development economics and a smasher of glass ceilings.

Peggy, as she was known to her family, began her career as a civil servant at the Treasury in the late 1950s and was soon put forward to be the first British woman to join the World Bank in Washington. She was quickly promoted and sent to Guatemala, ensuring that loans for infrastructure projects were being used in the way that they should be.