Indicators – measurements of change – are essential tools for guiding policy and understanding development processes. Yet standard indicators are often narrow and measure economic change without accounting for negative impacts, such as environmental degradation. Promoting more sustained development will require indicators that successfully balance macro issues against community concerns. Information also needs to be easily accessible. Researchers from the UK New Economics Foundation ask: how can this balance be achieved? Who should choose the indicators? How successful have they been to date? They show that there is potential for better, fully comprehensive indicators to signpost paths to more sustainable development policies.