Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'doi moi'

The economic reform initiative launched in Vietnam in 1986, shifting from a centrally planned economy to a socialist-oriented market economy. Đổi Mới (meaning "renovation") introduced free-market reforms while maintaining Communist Party rule, allowing private ownership, foreign investment, and decentralized economic decision-making, which transformed Vietnam from one of the world's poorest nations into a lower middle-income country with rapid growth.

What If Hanoi Developed Different Economic Reforms?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Vietnam chose a different path of economic reform than the Đổi Mới policies, potentially reshaping Southeast Asian development and the global socialist landscape.