The economist who developed the Human Development Index (HDI) is? (CSS 2023 Special Pakistan Affairs Paper)

Dr Kaiser Bengali
Dr. Mahbub ul-Haq
Hafeez Ahmed Pasha
None of these options

The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual Human Development Index (HDI) report published by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The first HDR was launched in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.
  • Mahbub ul-Haq 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.
  • As finance minister in 1985-88 he tried (without success) to tax the 22 families which, he said, dominated the economy of Pakistan. Doing the will of General Zia ul Haq, Pakistan’s then dictator, may not have been the happiest time in Mahbub ul Haq’s career.

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