Locals sell vegetables in front of a damaged market in Balakliia, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine on September 21, 2022. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





Libyans shop at a market in Tripoli on October 5, 2022 ahead of celebrations marking the birth of Islam's Prophet Mohammed known in Arabic as “Mawlid al-Nabawi”. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia/AFP Photo)





A vendor sits surrounded by her secondhand garments displayed at a market where people can buy or barter goods, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Argentina has one of the world’s highest inflation rates, currently running at more than 60% annually, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC). (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





A man shops for vegetables at a market in Mexico City, Tuesday, August 9, 2022. Mexico's annual inflation rate rose to 8.15% in July, driven largely by the rising price of food, according to government data released Tuesday. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





A Kyrgyz woman holds her baby as she sells kumis at a street market in Koy-Tash village, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of the capital Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, August 13, 2022. Kumis is a fermented milk drink popular in Central Asia that proponents say has health benefits. The grass and herbs lend flavor to the milk that locals draw from the mares in the fields where they graze. The milk then is left to ferment, or sometimes churned to promote fermentation, until it becomes mildly alcoholic. (Photo by Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo)





A man walks with an umbrella past a market place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, October 21, 2022. Sri Lankan lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment on Friday that trims the powers of the president, a key demand of protesters who are seeking political reforms and solutions to the country’s dire economic crisis. The Indian Ocean country is effectively bankrupt. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Women wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus buy apples from a roadside vendor in New Delhi, India, Thursday, August 11, 2022. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Vendors wait for customers at a wholesale vegetable market in Dhaka on September 4, 2022. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)





Vitalina Reznichenko stands at the entrance of her shop where she sells products at a local market in Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, October 18, 2022. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





Palestinians display grapes during the Palestinian grapes festival in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank city of Hebron, 18 September 2022. Hebron is famous for its grape production because it contains many vineyards. (Photo by Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA/EFE)





Men carry chickens home after buying them at Sholla Market, the day before the Ethiopian New Year, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, September 10, 2022. Once home to one of Africa's fastest growing economies, Ethiopia is struggling as the war in its Tigray region has reignited and Ethiopians are experiencing the highest inflation in a decade, foreign exchange restrictions and mounting debt amid reports of massive government spending on the war effort. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A vendor rests on a wall at a street market in the Kangemi district of Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, August 1, 2022. Kenyans will head to the polls on Aug. 9 to choose a new president in a contest pitting fifth-time contender Raila Odinga against William Ruto, a challenger whos anchored his campaign on a rags-to-riches story. (Photo by Michele Spatari/Bloomberg via Getty Images)





A man hugs a kid at the grocery store in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 20 , 2022. (Photo by Fabio Teixeira/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A floating guava market in the country's southern Barisal district, Known as “The Venice of Bengal”, is now abuzz with buyers and sellers in Swarupkathi, Barisal, Bangladesh on August 16, 2022 as the harvest of guava is on its peak. Nobody knows when the idea of this floating market began, but it's a hundred-year old tradition. Development and modernization are taking over the country but it's surprising to see them not reaching this river-oriented life yet. (Photo by Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People buy vegetables at a local market in Lahore on August 30, 2022. Catastrophic monsoon floods in Pakistan have sent food prices skyrocketing, putting many staples out of the reach of the poor as the cash-strapped nation battles shortages. The floods have submerged a third of the country, killing more than 1,100 people and affecting over 33 million. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)