Charina Em poses in one of her food stores in Manila on Thursday, September 21, 2023. Food store owners in the capital city are losing money, with prices increasing rapidly since Sept. 1. “We cannot save money anymore. It is like we just work so that we can have food daily”, said Em. (Photo by Joeal Calupitan/AP Photo)





Food shop sellers attend clients in a street market at Eminonu commercial district in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has espoused unconventional policies in the past, is fully on board with the country's new economic policies that foresee a tight monetary policy to bring down inflation, members of his economy team said Thursday. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A fishmonger puts a fish inside a box in a street market at Eminonu commercial district in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, September 6, 2023. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A vendor carries two watermelons as the new watermelon season starts in Dakar on September 15, 2023. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A vendor sells her cooked bee's nest for local tourists at Oudong hill on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, November 11, 2023. (Photo by Heng Sinith/AP Photo)





A man sells fruits at a market in Lagos, Nigeria Wednesday , November 29, 2023. Nigeria's leader on Wednesday presented a $34 billion spending plan for 2024 to federal lawmakers with a key focus on stabilizing Africa's largest but ailing economy and fighting the nation's deadly security crisis. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





A food shop seller talks to a client in a street market at Eminonu commercial district in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, September 6, 2023. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





People shop for fish at a Kyiv market on November 21, 2023. (Photo by Alice Martins for The Washington Post)





A seller of second hand clothes interacts with a customer at Owino Market in Kampala, Uganda, Friday, September 15, 2023. Downtown Kampala’s Owino Market has long been a go-to enclave for rich and poor people alike looking for affordable but quality-made used clothes, underscoring perceptions that Western fashion is superior to what is made at home. But, despite their popularity, secondhand clothes are facing increasing pushback. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo)





Timothy Kinyua unloads sacks of onions from Ethiopia at an open market in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Restrictions on the export of the vegetable by neighboring Tanzania has led prices to triple. The prices for onions from Tanzania were the highest in seven years, Kinyua said. Some traders have adjusted by getting produce from Ethiopia. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Residents of Mathare slum fill bags with coal in hard conditions in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi on November 06, 2023. The coal that workers produce with primitive methods by working overtime in unlicensed workshops is used for heating, cooking and other daily needs. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A woman sell grains at a market in Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Palestinians, live in Nuseirat refugee camp, are seen shopping at a local bazaar during the humanitarian pause in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 30, 2023. Israel launched a massive military campaign in the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Visitors walk around the annual Christmas market at Roemerberg square on the market's opening day on November 27, 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany. Christmas markets are opening across Germany this week. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)





Vendors sell decorative traditional footwears along a street ahead of the Navratri festival in Ahmedabad, India on September 18, 2022. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)