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Having outlined in the first part of the paper the principles guiding the selection of indicators to measure development at the level of human beings, the authors proceed in this second and concluding part to present such indicators, without, however, making any claims to finality. The idea is to measure development by the size of the sufficiency group in society; that is, the proportion of the population that is enabled to satisfy its fundamental and almost fundamental needs.

The purpose of this article is to discuss how the old and rather technocratic idea of expressing the state of affairs in a society in numbers, by means of social indicatros, can be given a more radical content. One idea is to measure not only how good a society is to its own citizens, but also how good or bad it is to the rest of the world. A second idea is to avoid abstractions like GNP and averages and try to develop measures that reflect the state of affairs at the level of human beings. A third idea is to find ways of developing indicators that would give less power to experts and more to people themselves. The article starts by giving the outline of a basic discussion on indicators, proceeds with a discussion of the basic values guiding the selection of indicators and ends with a presentation of the indicators.