London, 27 April 2021: The Libyan Business Council (LBC) reported that yesterday evening a first meeting of the Focus Group on improving the Libyan business environment was held at the Mahari Radisson Blue Hotel in Tripoli. It said the meeting came as a result of cooperation between the LBC, the Pragma Corporation and within the framework of the Public Fund Management Programme in Libya funded by USAID. The U.S. Pragma Corporation, through USAID, is responsible for implementing Libya’s Public Finance Management reform (PFM). The meeting brought together a group of business owners, experts in commercial law and economists and dealt with several points cantered around how to create an environment conducive to comprehensive business and private sector development.