Vendors are seen on their mobile phones while selling cash in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Aug. 8, 2019. Zimbabwe will launch a digital currency next month by introducing “tokens” that are backed by gold reserves and can be transferred between people and businesses as a form of payment, the country's central bank said Friday April 28, 2023. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





The owner of a small-scale shop selling vegetables stands by her produce in Kitengela, on the outskirts of the capital Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, April 17, 2023. In Kenya, drought added to food shortages and high prices arising from the impact of war in Ukraine, and costs have stayed stubbornly high ever since. (Photo by Khalil Senosi/AP Photo)





People buy traditional sweets in preparation for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr celebrations, at a shop, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, April 20, 2023. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





Street traders sell various goods outside a supermarket on the streets of Harare, in this Monday, May, 22, 2023 photo. Shoppers in Zimbabwe are increasingly turning to street traders to buy what they need as the local currency plunges in value against the U.S. dollar.Street traders in cars, on bicycles or on foot clog sidewalks, roads and parking spaces. They sell items ranging from groceries to cosmetics, brooms, dog chains, car parts and medicines.(Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





Children laugh in a market in Kowach village in Canal Pigi county, Jonglei State, South Sudan Friday, May 5, 2023. In 18 months the country is due to hold presidential elections, the culmination of a peace agreement signed nearly five years ago, and while large scale clashes have subsided, violence in parts of the country persists, with more people killed last year than the one prior. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





Ragpickers collect tomatoes from a waste bin at a wholesale market in Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A vendor arranges a price sign at a market in Karachi, Pakistan, 26 June 2023. Pakistan's parliament gave the nod to changes to the budget for the next fiscal year on 25 June, imposing new taxes and making further cuts in government spending in a last-ditch effort to secure critical funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avoid a possible default. According to the State Bank of Pakistan, due to external debt repayments, the country's foreign exchange reserves have decreased by an additional 170 million US dollars to 2.92 billion USD. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)





A vendor arranges dates on his cart at a market in Rawalpindi on June 1, 2023. (Photo by Farooq Naeem/AFP Photo)





A man sells bananas at a market during a cease-fire in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, May 27, 2023. Saudi Arabia and the United States say the warring parties in Sudan are adhering better to a week-long cease-fire after days of fighting. (Photo by Marwan Ali/AP Photo)





A vendor waits for customers at a market place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June. 1, 2023. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka reduced its interest rates Thursday, June 1, 2023, for the first time since the island nation declared bankruptcy last year. Stern fiscal controls, improved foreign currency income and help from an International Monetary Fund program has resulted in inflation slowing faster than expected. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Sausage and ham, displayed in Budapest's Grand Market Hall on Saturday, April 8, 2023, are almost considered luxury food items. In Hungary, people are increasingly unable to cope with the biggest spike in food prices in the EU, reaching 45% in March. (Photo by Denes Erdos/AP Photo)





Turkish people do shopping ahead of Eid Al-Fitr at Ulus district in Ankara, Turkiye on April 17, 2023. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the three day festival marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, which is one of the two major holidays in Islam. (Photo by Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





This general view shows the Port-Bouet market in Abidjan on June 24, 2023 where animals are sold ahead of Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP Photo)





People sell fruits and vegetables in southern Khartoum, on May 24, 2023. Sporadic artillery fire still echoed in Sudan's capital but residents said fighting had calmed following a US and Saudi-brokered ceasefire, raising faint hopes in the embattled city. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Sachets of various food items and toiletries hang at a kiosk on April 15, 2023 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. The Philippines is the largest ocean polluter in the world, contributing a third of the 80% of global ocean plastic that comes from Asian rivers, according to a 2021 report by Oxford University's Our World in Data. Poverty has led the Philippines to become a “sachet economy” that consumes 163 million sachets every day, worsening marine plastic pollution in the region. The trash is piling up on land, clogging coastlines, spilling into the sea, and traveling to remote corners of the globe, as the country fails to meet targets for improved waste management that it signed into law more than two decades ago. According to Greenpeace, global corporations trap low-income customers in developing countries like the Philippines to buy – and buy often – fast-moving consumer goods in small quantities packaged in cheap, disposable plastics as part of a strategy to drive market share and profits. Break Free From Plastic’s 2022 Brand Audit Report revealed that the Coca-Cola Company, Philip Morris International, Universal Robina Corporation (URC), Philippine Spring Water Resources, Inc., and Japan Tobacco International are the worst plastic polluters in the country. Globally, Coca-Cola also leads the list for five years in a row, followed by PepsiCo, Nestle, Mondelez International, and Unilever – all consistently part of the annual top 10. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)