Planning and plan implementation in Libya : presented by the Government of Libya

Abstract

In order to better understand Libya's problems of economic and social development and how it tackles them it is useful to view them in historical perspective. Some twelve to fifteen years ago natural, human and capital resources were such that planners did not see much of development potentialities in Libya. Its vast country of about one and three quarter square kilometers consists almost wholly of desert or semi-desert due to the lack of water and good soil. Still, the main avenue of development was envisaged to be in agriculture in some of the coastal and mountain regions as well as in certain scattered oases. In addition, some development in the field of handicrafts, tourism and fishing was proposed.