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Libya enjoyed solid growth performance in the first decade of the century. In 2003 UN sanctions were lifted after Libya admitted complicity in the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing. In 2004 the USA lifted almost all of its unilateral sanctions after Libya agreed to give up its nuclear weapons programmes.
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Turner, B. (2018). Libya, Economics of. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2896
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