Public policy in libya : a story of missed development opportunities

Abstract EN

Libya obtained its independence in December 24, 1951 as the Kingdom of Libya.

Before the discovery of oil in 1958, Libya was a poor country that relied on agriculture and leasing military bases to the United Kingdom and the United States.

Furthermore, the majority of the lands estimated at 1,759, 000 is a desert.

These challenges hindered poverty eradication and development strategies in Libya.

This soon changed with the export of oil by the end of 1960 that, in turn, unshared in effective implementation of development policies with renaissance of rural- urban migration, the establishment of Libyan University and related modernization policies like in areas of medicine and public administration programs.

Every modernization clashed with a traditional society that led to the acceptance of the political change that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power, which in turn emptied the state of its institutions in the system of overwhelming chaos and led to the revolution that occurred on 02/17/2011 AD and brought the country back into chaos.