it should also be understood that some indicators of gender equality are not likely to be applicable to all countries for example literacy rates may be more meaningful in subsaharan africa than in latin america and the caribbean and wage data are less relevant in largely agricultural societies the development of indicators to assess sdg progress will have to deal with this complexity fiscal policy and endogenous growth with public infrastructureoxford economic papers canuto and l p da silva on gender and growth the role of intergenerational health externalities and womens occupational constraints