Mahbub ul Haq

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Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq ( Urdu محبوب الحق* February 22, 1934 in Jammu , Principality of Kashmir and Jammu ; † July 16, 1998 in New York ) was an influential and world-famous Pakistani economist . He dealt with theories on the development of mankind and was instrumental in developing the index of human development . His proposals formed the basis for the further development of the United Nations Economic and Social Council .

Life and career

Haq attended Government College University and King's College in Lahore . He later 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 eventually graduated from Yale University .

From 1970 to 1982 he served as Director of the World Bank and then from 1982 to 1988 headed the Ministry of Finance in Pakistan as Minister of Finance and Planning. In 1989 he was appointed special advisor to the UNDP administrator. During this time, Haq worked with Paul Streten , Frances Stewart , Amartya Sen and Richard Jolly to create the annual Human Development Report. An index was developed from this in order to analyze developments in different countries and make them comparable. In 1996, Haq founded the Human Development Center in Islamabad , a Pakistani political research institute with a special focus on the South Asia region .

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

Honors

Both the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and the President of the World Bank expressed their regret over the loss of a man who had given decisive impetus to the work of these international organizations. In memory of Mahbub-ul-Haq, the United Nations Development Program has donated a prize for “Exceptional Contributions to the Development of Humanity”. The prizewinners were Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 2002 , Fazle Hasan Abed in 2004 and Sheila Watt-Cloutier in 2007 . 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 Third World and the international economic order . 1976
  • The Myth of the Friendly Markets . 1992
  • The UN And The Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges For The Twenty-First Century . Mahbub Ul Haq (Ed.) U. a., 1995
  • The Vision and the Reality . 1995
  • New Imperatives of Human Security . 1995
  • A New Framework for Development Cooperation . 1995
  • Reflections on Human Development . Oxford University Press , 1st ed. 1996: 288 pages, ISBN 0-19-510193-6 . 2nd edition 1999: 324 pages, ISBN 0-19-564598-7
  • Humanizing Global Institutions . 1998

literature

  • David Clark: The Elgar Companion to Development Studies . E. Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham 2006. ISBN 978-1-84376-475-5 . Pages 213-218. ( Preview in Google Book Search)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amartya Sen in Nermeen Shaikh (ed.): The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Global Power . Columbia University Press, New York 2007. ISBN 978-0-231-14299-1 . Page 4f. ( Preview in Google Book Search)
personal data
SURNAME Haq, Mahbub ul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahbub-ul-Haq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Jammu
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1998
Place of death New York City