Is the Human Development Index Redundant

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Measuring Non-Economic Well-Being Achievement (2005, background): “3See Larson and Wilford (1979), McGillivray (1991), McGillivray and White (1993) and Cahill (2005).”
Multidimensional Measures of Well-Being: Standard of Living and Quality of Life Across Countries (2007, methodology): “According to Cahill (2005), this result might explain the high rank correlations between our indices using two different methods and weighting schemes. The matrix of correlations (Appendix F) also shows that GDP per capita is more strongly correlated with SL than with QL, which can be considered thr”
Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association, and Redundancy (2013, methodology): “They show how this distribution might be estimated using Monte Carlo methods and use a similar technique to evaluate the extent to which alternative orderings deviate from the original ordering. McGillivray and Noorbakhsh (2007) evaluate the effect of changing weights on the HDI by calculating rank ”
The HDI 2010: new controversies, old critiques (2011, background): “One could contend that such insights could just as easily be derived from separately analyzing disaggregated information on each of the component dimensions, and that summarizing all of this information in an aggregate number obscures important details, something unnecessary in a world in which the ”