Võ Văn Kiệt (23/11/1922 — 11/6/2008)
Nguyễn Xuân Long | 11 tháng 06, 2008 | 
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Among the grey ranks of Vietnam’s communist leadership few figures have ever stood out. One of the few was former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet.
Credited as the author of the reforms known as Doi Moi, which have transformed Vietnam’s economy, he was a rarity among senior officials in speaking out publicly against the failings of the communist system.
After the communist victory in 1975 he became party secretary of Saigon, and quietly defied hard-line official policy by trying to work with officials and businesses associated with the defeated government.
His experiments with diluting orthodox socialism in the city eventually encouraged the communist party to adopt market reforms for the whole country in 1986, at a time when the economy was in ruins.It took many years for those reforms to take root - but as prime minister Mr Kiet presided over a period of dramatic economic growth and foreign investment.
He remained an outspoken critic of official corruption and an advocate of reconciliation with opponents of communist rule - arguing that the brutal re-unification of north and south after 1975 had caused pain to millions.
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