 The new policy regime designed by the government and its advisers set out to encourage job-creating growth by transferring control over prices from the state to the market, improving access to foreign exchange, reducing administrative controls over investment and employment decisions, and by reducing the fiscal deficit.It had wide local support and was introduced before economic problems had gone out of control.A 40 percent devaluation of the Zimbabwean dollar was allowed to occur and price and wage controls were removed.