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Libya

The Experience of Oil

By: J A Allan

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Paperback | 30 August 2024 | Edition Number 1

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First published in 1981, Libya: The Experience of Oil provides a comprehensive overview of Libyaâ s socio-economic development since the reform of 1961. It reviews Libyaâs oil endowment and draws attention to the deficiencies in the countryâs renewable natural resources and in the availability of unskilled labour and trained professional staff. The absorption of oil wealth after 1961 is shown to have been severely constrained by poor factor endowment in land and labour resources. The book shows that by end of the 1970s there had been a significant redistribution of wealth along with a reorganization of the economy, such that almost all production, distribution and resources were under public control. A recurring feature observed in this pattern of change is that rates of investment, sectoral allocations to the development spending, improvement in the standard of living and the level of social service provision advanced at a constant rate after oil and that the revolution had little impact on the rate of improvement in the development indicators. This is book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of African studies, African politics, geopolitics and international relations.

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