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The Unmeasurable Human: The Existential Gap in the World Bank’s Model

Ölçülemeyen İnsan: Dünya Bankası Modelindeki Varoluşsal Boşluk

Özlem Küçük(Kocaeli Üniversitesi Turizm Fakültesi)0000-0002-7717-2439
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66–93
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2026-06-30
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It argues that such a framework, grounded in ethical governance and local knowledge, is essential for achieving more equitable, resilient, and sustainable development outcomes in a post-digital world.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This article provides a critical and original reassessment of the World Bank’s human capital strategy against the backdrop of rapid technological change and shifting global dynamics.
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This article provides a critical and original reassessment of the World Bank’s human capital strategy against the backdrop of rapid technological change and shifting global dynamics. Drawing on a systematic review of World Development Reports from 1978 to 2024 and leading critical scholarship, the study traces the evolution of the Bank’s understanding of human capital. It highlights a progression from the “basic needs” approach of the 1980s, through the market-oriented reforms of the 1990s, to the knowledge economy narrative of the 2000s and ongoing debates on digital transformation. The central contribution of the article is its critique of metric reductionism and the consequences this has for both academic research and policy design. The analysis demonstrates that the World Bank’s strategy has increasingly centered on the Human Capital Index (HCI), a unidimensional metric that reduces human potential to mere economic productivity. The paper contends that this perspective creates a fundamental gap by neglecting immeasurable human attributes—such as ethical judgment, intuition, and collective wisdom—which remain crucial in the era of Artificial Intelligence. The article concludes by advocating for a paradigm shift toward a multidimensional, context-sensitive, and ontologically comprehensive understanding of human capital. It argues that such a framework, grounded in ethical governance and local knowledge, is essential for achieving more equitable, resilient, and sustainable development outcomes in a post-digital world.

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Bu makale, Dünya Bankası’nın insan sermayesi stratejisini, hızlı teknolojik değişim ve değişen küresel dinamikler bağlamında eleştirel ve özgün bir perspektiften yeniden değerlendirmektedir. 1978’den 2024’e kadar yayımlanan Dünya Kalkınma Raporları ve önde gelen eleştirel akademik çalışmaların sistematik bir incelemesine dayanan çalışma, Banka’nın insan sermayesi anlayışının evrimini izlemektedir. Bu gelişim çizgisi; 1980’lerdeki "temel ihtiyaçlar" yaklaşımından 1990’lardaki piyasa odaklı reformlara, 2000’lerin bilgi ekonomisi anlatısına ve günümüzdeki dijital dönüşüm tartışmalarına kadar uzanmaktadır. Makalenin temel katkısı, ölçütsel indirgemecilik olgusunu ve bunun hem akademik araştırma hem de politika tasarımı üzerindeki sonuçlarını eleştirmesidir. Analiz, Dünya Bankası’nın stratejisinin giderek İnsan Sermayesi Endeksi’ne (HCI) odaklandığını ve insan potansiyelini yalnızca ekonomik üretkenliğe indirgeyen tek boyutlu bir ölçüte dönüştüğünü göstermektedir. Makale, bu bakış açısının etik yargı, sezgi ve kolektif bilgelik gibi ölçülemeyen insani nitelikleri göz ardı ederek, özellikle Yapay Zekâ çağında kritik önemde olan bu unsurları ihmal ettiğini ve böylece temel bir boşluk yarattığını savunmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, çok boyutlu, bağlama duyarlı ve ontolojik olarak kapsamlı bir insan sermayesi anlayışına geçilmesi gerektiği vurgulanmaktadır. Etik yönetişim ve yerel bilgiye dayanan böyle bir çerçevenin, dijital sonrası dünyada daha adil, dirençli ve sürdürülebilir kalkınma sonuçlarına ulaşmak için hayati olduğu ileri sürülmektedir.

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Küçük, Ö. (2026). The Unmeasurable Human: The Existential Gap in the World Bank’s Model. Katre Uluslararası İnsan Araştırmaları Dergisi, Cilt: 11 Sayı: 21, 66–93. https://doi.org/10.53427/katre.1910211

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