MODERN EVOLUTION OF MANUFACTURING IN LIBYA

الملخص

During the period 1964-1971, the years between the two most recent Libyan Census of Manufacturing Industries, various industries in Libya experienced phenomenal changes relating to location and growth. During these seven years the overall increase in total persons engaged in industry was about 7489 workers, 81.1 per cent of the 1964 number. An important growth has been made by Libyan industry in the past decade, with the application of the social and economic development plans as well as the introduction of the loan system. But, did every industrial group and Industrial region expand at this rate of growth, or did some have a different rate? If so, which regions had the fastest rate, and which had the slowest ? Which Industrial groups had a rapid growth rate and which had a declining one? Moreover, was the rate of growth and decline of these industrial groups the same or different in each of the regions ? The purpose of this paper is to answer these questions and to identify and contrast the types of change in Industrial location and growth which took place in the country during this period.