Contents

Speeches from Global Leaders

-Monetary Policy Normalization and the Road Ahead (by Jerome H. Powell)

-The Financial Sector: Redefining a Broader Sense of Purpose (by Christine Lagarde)

-The Euro Area Economy and Our Monetary Policy Stance (by Luis de Guindos)

-The new Role of Central Banks (by Agustín Carstens)

The NPC and CPPCC Sessions

-Local Government Debt: Solved or Postponed? (by Herbert Poenisch)

-China and Its Western Critics (by Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng)