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 1993 by the United Nations Development Programme in its annual report. 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).
Selected works
- The Strategy of Economic Planning (1963)
- The Poverty Curtain (1976)
- Reflections on Human Development (1995).
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