A Market 4 worker takes a nap on a hot summer day in Asuncion, Paraguay, January 16, 2024. (Photo by Jorge Saenz/AP Photo)





A man yawns as he sits at a market decorated with flags featuring Hindu god Ram, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Frenzied preparations are underway in India's northern Ayodhya city to mark the opening of the grand temple for the Lord Ram, Hinduism's most revered deities, culminating a decades-long Hindu nationalist pledge. The consecration ceremony Monday will see an idol of Lord Ram placed in the temple's inner sanctum and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alongside Hindu priests, will be in attendance. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A woman selling second-hand clothes arranges several items at her stall while waiting for costumers in Owino, Kampala's largest second-hand clothes market, on October 7, 2023. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced a ban on the importation of used clothing into Uganda to be effective from September, claiming it affects the development of the local textile industries and stating that used clothes belonged to dead people. Uganda has traditionally imported large quantities of used clothing, which many Ugandans prefer due to its affordability. (Photo by Badru Katumba/AFP Photo)





Christmas piñatas for sale hang over a fruit vendor's stall at the Jamaica market in Mexico City, December 14, 2023. The breaking open of piñatas are part of the Mexican Christmas tradition. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





A local vendor displays cooked turtles on a tray for selling at Prek Kdam village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, December 21, 2023. (Photo by Heng Sinith/AP Photo)





Roadside vendors wait for customers at a market place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, December 8, 2023. The Asian Development Bank said Friday that it has approved $200-million concessional loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka to help stabilize the country's finance sector following an unprecedented economic crisis that engulfed the Indian Ocean island nation last year. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





People shop for meat at a market in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning province on January 12, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People sell vegetables and other goods next to a bomb shelter at a market in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on January 19, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP Photo)





People shop for fruits and other essentials at a local market in the commercial hub of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 01 January 2024. The Sri Lankan cabinet has given the green light to increase the value added tax (VAT) from the existing 15 percent to 18 percent starting from 01 January 2024. This hike aims to fulfill the revenue goals set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), amid the country's worst economic crisis in over seven decades as a result of a lack of foreign reserves. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA)





Vendors wait for customers at a vegetable market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, December 13, 2023. The International Monetary Fund executive board has approved the release of $ 337 million second tranche of a bailout package to help Sri Lanka recover from its worst economic crisis. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A youth collects discarded vegetables at a market on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





People chose from discarded tomatoes to take home, outside a market on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





A vender arranges goods for sale at a market on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





A vendor sells livestock at a market in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning province on January 12, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A Tunisian craftsman carves designs into a copper disk in the souk (open-air market) of the old city in Tunis, Tunisian, 17 January 2024. The centuries-old practice of engraving on metals such as gold, silver and copper, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List in December 2023. Ten countries including Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen, have collaborated in the nomination process. (Photo by Mohamed Messara/EPA)