Mahbub ul Haq

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Mahbub ul Haq (February 22, 1934 - July 16, 1998) was an influential and world renowned Pakistani economist. One of the founders of human development theory (and a personal friend of Amartya Sen, whom he met while studying at Cambridge), together with Amartya Sen he created the Human Development Index, which came to be one of the most influential indices and has been used since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme for 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 (1982-1988).

Haq founded Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, Pakistan in 1996.

http://www.mhhdc.org/

[edit] Selected works

  • The Strategy of Economic Planning (1963)
  • The Poverty Curtain (1976)
  • Reflections on Human Development (1995).

[edit] External links

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