Theoretical and Statistical Inadequacies in Human Development Index: Alternative Index Design with Social Policy Perspective

Abstract

Social policy includes all practices developed to prevent disadvantageousness. Determination of disadvantages is also important in this context. The aid programs created on a global scale can also work to provide assistance to the countries according to their level of development. Such aids can also be considered as international social policy practices. Moreover, the creation of such aid agencies by many countries allows their implementation to be regarded as transnational social policy applications rather than transnational social policy. There are a number of alternate indicator designs available to ask what will be the display as a criterion of disadvantageousness. But the most popular one of the human development indexes on a global scale is the UNDP's HDI which is a multiple inequality index. This index is an important indicator in the determination of the countries to be helped. However, there are serious theoretical and statistical inadequacies in the index design process. This study focused on theoretical and statistical insufficiencies, and an alternative index design was carried out to rank and group the development of countries.