ABSTRACT
Several years after Libya's independence and the initiation of some measures of economic and social development, Benjamin Higgins, an economist who was dosely familiar with the country's conditions, could still say:
Libya combines within the borders of one country virtually all the obstades that can be found anywhere: geographie, economic, political, sociological, technologieal. If Libya can be brought to a stage of sustained growth, there is hope for every country in the world.1
