The concept of development has faced many criticisms associated with the issue of distributing income and social justice. Accordingly, the concept has been developed in the second stage to take into account giving an attention to human resources beside the capital. Then, the concept has been developed in a deeper way to include the environmental dimensions and their role in development. So, the concept of “sustainable development” has appeared in order to achieve a balance between the economic and environmental systems without depletion of natural resources and take the environmental security into account. The research problem is represented in the excessive development of human activity to take advantage of the resources of the limited nature. The research supposes that the development model, followed currently in most of the countries of the world, does not include the terms of sustainability represented in the harmony between achieving development objectives on the one hand, and protecting environment and its sustainability on the other hand. The research aims to know the dimensions, determinants, principles, indicators and the methods of measuring and financing sustainable development in developing countries in general and in Egypt in particular. It, also, aims to know the impact of some sustainable development indicators on the Egyptian economy with focusing on the environmental indicators and the extent of correlation between them and the economic factors whether at the level of the project, sector or macroeconomic. Then, suggesting polices that must be considered in order to activate sustainable development in Egypt.