Economics
Pandemic Price Controls Experiment Goes Seriously Awry in Kuwait
A vendor waits for customers at a food market in downtown Kuwait City.
Photographer: Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images
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Price controls designed to freeze food costs during the coronavirus outbreak in Kuwait have long outlasted the worst of the pandemic, causing indiscriminate economic havoc two years later.