Iraqis buy fresh produce at a shop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, recently ahead of Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. Faced with sharp price
rises, a decline in the buying power of the dinar and rising unemployment, Iraqis enter the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan with a feeling of dread.

People shop inside a Gucci shop as an employee grabs an item in Beijing on Tuesday.

A small business owner holds a banner reading "53,895 companies and 151,000 jobs at risk in the trade sector of Turin and its province", during a demonstration of restaurant owners and workers, entrepreneurs and small businesses owners on Tuesday at Piazza Castello in Turin, demanding the easing of lockdown restrictions and financial assistance from the government, during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

A worker makes repairs a traffic signal recently in San Francisco, California. U.S. President Joe Biden introduced a $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that could potentially reshape the American economy. The American Jobs Plan is poised to repair aging roads and bridges, jump-start transit projects and rebuild school buildings and hospitals, expand electric vehicles, replace all lead pipes and overhaul the nation’s water systems.