Mahbub ul Haq
Mahbub ul Haq (February 22, 1934 - July 16, 1998) was an influential Pakistani economist. One of the founders of human development theory (and a personal friend of Amartya Sen, whom he met while studying at Cambridge), he created the Human Development Index, used since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme in its annual report (Human Development Report - http://hdr.undp.org). He also served as the World Bank's director of policy planning (1970-1982) and headed Pakistan's Finance Ministry as its minister of finance and planning (1982-1984).
Mr. Haq founded Human Development Centre, Pakistan in 1996.
Selected works
- The Strategy of Economic Planning (1963)
- The Poverty Curtain (1976)
- Reflections on Human Development (1995).
External links
- Dr. Mahbub-ul-Haq page on United Nations in Pakistan site - Contains a tribute, his speeches and the Human Development Review Journal
Categories
1934 births | 1998 deaths | Finance Ministers of Pakistan | Pakistani bankers | Pakistani politicians | Pakistani economists | Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge | Economists