opening up the telecommunications network to private providers can increase competition potentially reducing costs and improving service quality liberalisation of the telecommunications sector opening mobile and internet markets to competition and establishing independent regulation can help to sustain and accelerate private sectorled economic growth world bank b the events and aftermath heightened the many challenges faced by the libyan labour market these include overemployment in the bloated public sector high unemployment especially among youth and women low job creation weak social protection and a lack of social dialogue libya s resource curse further distorts the labour market and prevents it from functioning properly