Cost of Living and Household Pressure
2 articlesCost of Living and Household Pressure tracks how prices and recurring expenses affect household purchasing power. Coverage connects food, housing, energy, transport, utilities, wages, debt and subsidy changes to the practical pressure on family budgets, while examining which groups are most exposed and how policy responses alter the burden. Economy-wide inflation belongs under Macroeconomy, while Social Mobility and Inequality addresses longer-term distribution, opportunity and class outcomes rather than immediate affordability stress.
Libya launches crackdown on bakery subsidies after bread crisis
Libya's government is rolling out a sweeping electronic and field-based monitoring system for bakeries, aiming to end chronic bread shortages and stamp out subsidy abuse after this summer's supply crisis exposed deep flaws in the country's food security model.
Grand Mufti criticises Tripoli government over basic service failures
Sheikh Sadig al-Ghariani, the Western-based Grand Mufti of Libya, has publicly criticised the Tripoli government for neglecting essential services, highlighting worsening shortages of water, fuel, and cash, and warning of growing social inequality.