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Business Daily: Libya: a future in doubt?  

03/08/2012

Libya: a future in doubt?  

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Libya: a future in doubt?

There's a new parliament about to sit in Libya - but what hope for economic recovery?

Just months after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, what hope for Libya - plagued by years of corruption and misrule? Also, what hope for Hillary Clinton, aiming to drum up US trade in Africa?

Libya's newly elected premier, wants "one destiny for all his people". But just months after the fall of the Gaddafi regime and with the new parliament about to sit, we have a report from Benghazi about the deep economic challenges still affecting ordinary people. Karin Maree, an analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit, tells us the petrodollars are flowing back into Libya, but the next year will be crucial to ensuring a national recovery. 

Also what hope for Hillary Clinton, aiming to drum up trade on an African tour? We hear from a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Witney Schneidman. He recalls past state visits and says, despite China's recent heavy investment in Africa, there's still plenty for the US to gain in one of the world's fastest growing economic regions.

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