The Forum will provide a key platform for participants to share information and discuss the most important regional social security challenges and priority issues in the Americas. The Forum is open to ISSA members from the Americas and invited participants only.

- "Human Capital Around the World” by Barbara Fraumeni (Central University for Finance and Economics, China), - “Human Capital in the Inclsuvie Wealth Report 2017” by Shunsuke Managi (Kyushu University, Japan), - “Conclusions from the UNECE Task Force Guide on Measuring Human Capital”...

The focus of the 2017 Public Economic workshop will be on (but not restricted to): - Taxation and Redistributive Systems, - Optimal Taxation, - Tax Evasion, - Welfare Economics and Normative Economics, - Social Security, Social Insurance and Health Economics, - Development Economics and...