services provided by and for the commxmity at large, such as safe drinking water, sanitation, public transport and health, educational and cultural facilities". 50/ The themes of "target-setting" or the development of "benchmarks" towards the attainment of basic needs have also been considered at length by ILO, as well as being frequently reiterated by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in their monitoring procedures. ILO's Basic Needs usefully states: "Targets are objectives, describing minimum levels of basic needs satisfaction, which government programmes and policies will help to attain. Like any target these must be measurable and capable of evaluation and, given their role in an anti-poverty strategy, they must be amenable to the correct and desired forms of government intervention. However, it is a clear error to pick targets which have few qualities other than that they are both measurable and subject to government control." 51/ 79. Another perspective which could usefully be drawn into this context is the idea of operationalizing an analytically meaningful minimvun threshold for human rights realization by means of country-specific thresholds measured by indicators. 52/ The indicators suggested for use in this approach concern nutrition, infant mortality, disease frequency, life expectancy, income, unemployment and underemployment. Proponents of this approach feel that the right to adequate food is the nearest they can come to a minimal threshold that can be generalized across cultures and societies. 53/ 80. The emphasis upon basic needs-oriented development caused many indicators which were once thought to be directly relevant to measuring development to be classified as inadeqviate for this purpose. Often, the inadeqviacy of an indicator may be due more to the way in which the data is collected, the lack of comparability over time and similar factors than to the non-usefulness of 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the importance of providing basic needs such as safe drinking water, sanitation, public transport, health, educational and cultural facilities to the community at large. It also mentions the development of targets and benchmarks to achieve these basic needs, as well as the idea of operationalizing a minimal threshold for human rights realization using indicators such as nutrition, infant mortality, and income. These topics are related to the overall well-being and quality of life of individuals, which is a key aspect of development.

**Category**
Health, Education, Employment