Pinasimulan ni mahbub ul haq noong 1990

Pakistani economist (–)

For other uses, see Mahbubul Haq.

Mahbub ul-Haq (Urdu: محبوب الحق; ()24 February &#;&#; ()16 July ) was a Pakistani economist, international development theorist, and politician who served as the minister of Finance from 10 April to 28 January , and again from June to December 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.^[1]

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. Haq returned to Pakistan to serve as the chief economist of the Planning Commission throughout the s.

In , after the fall of Ayub Khan, Haq