Measurement of sustainable development in the contemporary world represents a topic
of wide approach in the context of transformations which global economic environment has experienced over
the last half-century. The necessity of identification of new indicators that
provide a more faithful image of economic life has imposed the construction of new indicators for measuring. In this
context, the central objective of the paper is to achieve a synthesis of some of these indicators, analysing
their evolution in the context of existing economic realities but also highlighting further correlations, limitations
and disputes to which they are subjected to lately.
Thus in this paper are presented and analyzed, considering the arguments above, a series of indicators such
as the ecological footprint, biocapacity, happy planet index or other segnificant indicators. Another objective of the
paper is also the identification of possible solutions for the application of these indicators in the foundation for
sustainable economic policies in the context of global economic transformation