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). February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Face-to-face trading interactions among on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor Economics, may just involve more otriches than you think social science, studies the production, distribution, and consumption of commodities. ... Human development theory is an economic theory that merges older ideas from ecological economics, sustainable development, welfare economics, and feminist economics. ... Amartya Sen Dr. Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (Bengali: Ômorto Kumar Shen) (born 3 November 1933 in Santiniketan, India), is an economist and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (sometimes referred to informally as the Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, for his work on... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the largest multilateral source of grant technical assistance in the world. ... Logo of the World Bank The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means... The Ministry is headed by the Finance Minister of Pakistan, who must be a member of Parliament of Pakistan. ... The Finance Minister of Pakistan heads the Ministry of Finance. ...

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