A meat vendor attends to a customer at a butcher stand in a food market in Cusco, Peru, Friday, January 27, 2023. The Defense Ministry said Thursday that the armed forces will support an effort by police to lift ongoing blockades on highways that the government says is causing shortages and price increases in certain parts of the country. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





Woman arrange flowers at a street market in Yangon, Myanmar, on February 2, 2021. World Bank economists say Myanmar's economy grew 3% in 2022 and will likely achieve the same pace of growth in 2023, but still lags far behind where it stood before the army seized power in early 2021. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





A produce vendor arranges carrots as he waits for customers at a market in Islamabad, Pakistan, on January 22, 2022. Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough food to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other UN agencies released Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A man buys black market fuel in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, December 15, 2022. Syria's economy has hit its lowest point since the country's civil war began nearly 12 years ago, with severe fuel shortages in both government and rebel-held areas, spiraling inflation and the Syrian currency hitting an all-time low on the black market. (Photo by Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo)





A vendor sells spices and dry fruits in Karachi, Pakistan, 09 January 2023. Inflation will rise to 40 percent if the coalition government accepts the IMF's conditions for completing the Ninth Review of the Extended Fund Facility worth 7 billion US dollar, PTI leader Hammad Azhar warned on 08 January. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A laborer carries sacks of oranges in a wholesale fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan, on December 1, 2021. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A street market vendor gathers fresh produce days after Haiti police blocked streets and broke into the airport during a protest demanding justice for fellow police officers killed by armed gangs, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 29, 2023. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters)





People buy kites ahead of the Hindu festival Makar Sankranti in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, January 7, 2023. The festival marks the transition of winter to spring. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Vendor Yegor Dyachkovsky, 45, poses for a picture at an open-air market on a frosty day in Yakutsk, Russia, January 15, 2023. Yakutsk, one of the Russia's north-most cities, is hit by an extreme cold snap as the air temperature on Sunday (January 15) plunged as low as minus 51 degrees Celsius (minus 59.8 degrees Fahrenheit). (Photo by Roman Kutukov/Reuters)





Shopkeeper waits for customers in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, December 15, 2022. Syria's economy has hit its lowest point since the country's civil war began nearly 12 years ago, with severe fuel shortages in both government and rebel-held areas, spiraling inflation and the Syrian currency hitting an all-time low on the black market. (Photo by Omar Sanadiki/AP Photo)





A vegetable seller takes rest at a wholesale vegetable market in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ramped up capital spending by a substantial 33% to $122 billion in an annual budget presented to Parliament on Wednesday, seeking to spur economic growth and create jobs ahead of a general election next year. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





People visit a market for shopping in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, January 4, 2023. Authorities on Wednesday ordered shopping malls and markets to close by 8:30 p.m. as part of a new energy conservation plan aimed at easing Pakistan's economic crisis, officials said. The move comes amid talks with the International Monetary Fund. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo)





A vendor waits for customers inside a market in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, November 7, 2022. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)





A man selling garland of Rajnigandha (Agave Amica) flower on the day of Diwali festival at the Ghazipur Wholesale Flower Market on October 24, 2022. People buy flowers for Diwali decoration, flowers are also commonly used as offerings to the gods Lakshmi and Ganesh. (Photo by Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People buy flower decorations for upcoming New Year at the biggest and most popular flower market, in Ghazipur district of New Delhi, India on December 29, 2022. (Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)