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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahbub ul Haq has received more than 560,527 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Mahbub ul Haq is the 239th most popular economist (down from 229th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from India (down from 364th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 239 out of 414. Before him are Philip H. Dybvig, Ellen Swallow Richards, Eugen Slutsky, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, and Roy Harrod. After him are Étienne Laspeyres, Arthur Melvin Okun, Hernando de Soto Polar, Abhijit Banerjee, David Card, and Leszek Balcerowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 237. Before him are Gyoji Matsumoto, Frank País, Sven Wollter, Paco Ibáñez, Russ Tamblyn, and Mitsuteru Yokoyama. After him are Michael Graves, Ružica Sokić, Shirley Horn, Francesco Monterisi, Stefan Abadzhiev, and Julio Jiménez. Among people deceased in 1998, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 147. Before him are Jorge Pacheco Areco, Carl Wilson, Roy Rogers, Laila Schou Nilsen, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Olivier Gendebien. After him are Julio César Britos, Phil Hartman, Leo Penn, Rob Pilatus, Fritz Buchloh, and Gérard Grisey.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mahbub ul Haq ranks 433 out of 1,861. Before him are Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), M. F. Husain (1915), Udham Singh (1899), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), and Sukhdev Thapar (1907). After him are B. V. Doshi (1927), Phoolan Devi (1963), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894).

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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), Gita Gopinath (1971), Raghuram Rajan (1963), Bina Agarwal (1951), and Kshama Sawant (1973).

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