Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq ( born February 22, 1934 in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir Principality, † 16 July 1998 in New York), was an influential and world renowned Pakistani economist. He was concerned with theories of human development and has developed significantly the Human Development Index. His proposals were the basis for the further development of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Life and career

Haq visited in Lahore Government College University and King's College. Later he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a degree in Economics. He studied there with Amartya Sen with whom he had a close lifelong friendship. Haq finished his studies finally at Yale University.

Haq served from 1970 to 1982 as Director of the World Bank and then headed from 1982 to 1988 in Pakistan, the Ministry of Finance as Minister of Finance and Planning. In 1989 he was appointed Special Adviser to the UNDP Administrator. During this time, Haq created together with Paul Streten, Frances Stewart, Amartya Sen and Richard Jolly 's annual Human Development Report, an index was developed to analyze the development in different countries and to make them comparable. In 1996, the Haq Human Development Center founded in Islamabad, a Pakistani policy research institute with a special focus on the South Asian region.

On 16 July 1998, died Mahbub -ul- Haq and left behind his wife Khadija Haq and a son and a daughter.

Honors

Both the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the President of the World Bank expressed their regret over the loss of a man who has provided decisive impetus to the work of these international organizations. In memory of Mahbub -ul- Haq, UNDP has an award for " Outstanding contributions to the development of mankind" donated. Prize winners were, inter alia, 2002 Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 2004 Fazle Hasan Abed or 2007 Sheila Watt - Cloutier. The Institute, founded by Haq in Pakistan was named after him after his death.

Selected Works

  • The Strategy of Economic Planning. 1963
  • The Poverty Curtain: Choices for the Third World. Columbia University Press 1976. 247 pages. ISBN 0-231-04062-8
  • The Myth of the Friendly Markets. 1992
  • Reflections on Human Development. Oxford University Press, 1st edition 1996, 288 pages, ISBN 0-19-510193-6. 2nd edition 1999 324 pages, ISBN 0-19-564598-7
  • The UN And The Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges For The Twenty- First Century. Mahbub Ul Haq (ed.) et al, 1995
  • The Vision and the Reality. 1995
  • The Third World and the international economic order. 1976
  • New Imperatives of Human Security. 1995
  • A New Framework for Development Cooperation. 1995
  • Humanizing Global Institutions. 1998
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