カテゴリー: Cost of living crisis
Prices at discount stores double or more as cost pressures become critical issue ahead of upper house elections next monthThere can’t be a household in Japan that doesn’t own a few items from a 100-yen shop – anything from chopsticks and teacups to air…
In the middle of a crippling economic crisis, demonstrating is a luxury the country’s Tamil minority cannot affordFor months now, the sounds of protest and anger have rung out across Colombo, Sri Lanka’s largest city. Every day, along the city’s seafro…
While the pandemic has not led to a jump in unemployment, its impact on the over-50s and public sector staff is particularly troublingAt first glance, the UK jobs market is in rude health. The unemployment rate is back to where it was before the Covid …
Analysis: From Pakistan to the US, Australia to Germany, the cost of living is rising to new highs and causing new hardshipsUS inflation reaches 40-year high at 7.5%Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsAfter decades lurking in the …