Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - Statistics and Methods, grade: 1.00, University of Hamburg, course: Programm: MIBA, language: English, abstract: Why was an index like the Human Development Index (HDI) established in the first place? That question and what the HDI really is about is the topic of this paper. The aim is to highlight its uniqueness and show how it differentiates from other measurement tools of human development...