The paper inquires into the impact of contemporary major world events - the recession in the United States and Western Europe, the oil price hike, and the Arab Spring - on the flow of overseas Filipino workers or OFWs and their remittances. The paper finds that the recession in the West has not...

Recent economic and political developments have highlighted a challenge shared across the Arab region of generating employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in the developing economies of the Middle East and...

We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton's (2000) "identity economics" approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a job....