And it also gave encouragement to those policy makers who are still trying to shake up their once-admired, state-directed, command economies.

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Command economies conducted no experiments and worked by ignoring preferences.

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Doing so would permit Hanoi to borrow hundreds of millions from the newly established IMF funding facility available to countries ostensibly in transition from command to market economies.

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