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Mahbub ul Haq

1934 - 1998

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Mahbub ul-Haq (Urdu: محبوب الحق; (1934-02-24)24 February 1934 – (1998-07-16)16 July 1998) was a Pakistani economist, international development theorist, and politician who served as the minister of Finance from 10 April 1985 to 28 January 1986, and again from June to December 1988 as a caretaker. Regarded as one of the greatest economists of his time, Haq devised the Human Development Index, widely used to gauge the development of nations. After graduating with a degree in economics from the Government College University in Lahore, he won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge in England, where he obtained a second higher degree in the same field. He later received his PhD from Yale University in the United States and conducted postdoctoral research at the Harvard Kennedy School. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mahbub ul Haq is the 215th most popular economist (up from 239th in 2019), the 389th most popular biography from India (up from 433rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 215 out of 414. Before him are Raúl Prebisch, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Frank Knight, Fritz Machlup, Giovanni Arrighi, and Abba P. Lerner. After him are Nicholas Kaldor, James Steuart, David D. Friedman, Mancur Olson, Henry Hazlitt, and William Baumol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 203. Before him are Alexandra Ripley, Shirley Jones, Enrique Collar, Frans Brüggen, Dave Grusin, and Pat Boone. After him are Ralph Nader, Nicholas Liverpool, Bernard Chiarelli, Frankie Valli, Nino Ferrer, and Carel Godin de Beaufort. Among people deceased in 1998, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 123. Before him are Sani Abacha, Joan Hickson, Olivier Gendebien, Åke Seyffarth, Moshood Abiola, and Carl Wilson. After him are Klaus Tennstedt, Nino Ferrer, Mancur Olson, Vladimir Demikhov, Richard Hamming, and Eduardo Francisco Pironio.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 389 out of 1,861. Before him are Ibn Warraq (1946), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), Idries Shah (1924), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Salim Ali (1896), and Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908). After him are Rishi Kapoor (1952), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Ilaiyaraaja (1943), T. H. White (1906), Subramania Bharati (1882), and Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642).

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Among ECONOMISTS In India

Among economists born in India, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 2. Before him are Amartya Sen (1933). After him are Abhijit Banerjee (1961), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Avinash Dixit (1944), Kshama Sawant (1973), Bina Agarwal (1951), Raghuram Rajan (1963), and Gita Gopinath (1971).

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