“…The full 267-page document is as bland as the foregoing summary of policy priorities suggests, though it is lifted by some useful statistics. It is a depoliticized technical analysis that steers clear of power and inequality, and especially steers clear of how the geo-economic structure of the worldsystem -and its dominance by a small set of high-income countries led by the US, which have long coordinated amongst themselves to sustain their continued dominance -affects pandemics, financial crises and financial resolutions (Wade, 2019(Wade, , 2020. The remainder of this Assessment focuses on these political economy issues.…”