This concept paper focuses on the importance of creating measures to assess development progress through the perspective of spiritual principles. The paper begins by outlining a Baha'i perspective on development. It then touches on the use of indicators today and introduces the concept of spiritually based indicators for development. it considers, albeit summarily, five spiritual principles crucial to development and five policy areas in which these principles might be applies to generate goals and indicators to measure progress toward these goals. Three brief examples of how such indicators might be conceived and developed are then presented. Finally, a collaborative initiative to develop spiritually based indicators for development, involving the religions and a major international development agency , is suggested. 

The actual development of these measures is far beyond the scope of this paper. Rather, the intent of the paper, is as the subtitle states, to offer initial considerations regarding the creation of spiritually based indicators for development with the hope that a consultative process might be launched in which the difficult, yet deeply rewarding, work of conceptualizing and developing such indicators would begin in earnest. 

Taken from the blurb.