Figures from the Central Bank of Libya estimate that the consumer price index rose 15.9% overall in 2011, but that inflation was much higher in the final five months of the year.

Libya's Audit Bureau has published a special report - available here in Arabic - on government and public-sector company finances for 2011.

A delegation from Libya has completed a two-week cooperation workshop with the Dubai Statistics Centre (DSC) aimed at helping to develop Libya's statistical information systems.

Turkey's economy minister, Zafer Caglayan, held discussions with Libyan government officials this week as part of wider efforts to facilitate the return of Turkish contractors.

The list of some 330 companies and invididuals whose assets were frozen last month by the National Transitional Council (NTC) has been reduced to 241 with the issue of a new decision.

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The General Board of Ownership and Investment (GAOI) has reopened its Central Region office in Misrata and says it is trying to address problems faced by previously privatised companies.

Our view on the implications of a recent decree for thousands of government contracts signed in Libya before 2011, and the companies involved in them.

Officials from the Ministry of Economy and Trade held a meeting on 16 May with representatives from Korea's Knowledge Sharing Programme (KSP).

In an interview with Saudi Arabia's Al-Jazeera newspaper last week, the Libyan Minister of Economy, Ahmed al-Koshly, spoke about recovering Libya’s foreign assets and the cost of last year's foreign intervention.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report published in April estimates that Libya’s real GDP fell by 60% in 2011, but expects it to bounce back quickly in 2012 as crude output recovers.

The Libyan Export Promotion Centre (LEPC) has laid out plans to increase the volume of Libya's non-oil exports, which it says accounted for only 2% of the country's gross domestic product in 2010.

Secretary of the GPC for Industry, Economy and Trade, Mohamed Haweij, issued Decision 41 of 2011 to reduce the prices of locally-produced cooking oil and sugar, according to Quryna.

A Jordan Economic Forum was held in Tripoli on 23-24 January to discuss joint cooperation between the two countries, Al Jamahiriya reported.

The GPC has decided to remove taxes and customs duties on local and imported staple goods, Al Jamahiriya reported.