Download or read book The Bamboo Network and Its Impact on the Political Economy of Southeast Asia written by Al Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research explores the economic contributions of overseas ethnic Chinese (commonly referred to as the "bamboo network") in the economic transformation of Indonesia and the Philippines. This think-piece asks whether or not this economically dominant group can act as the catalysts of economic growth in the period of globalization, as it arguably did during the early decades of economic transformation in the postwar years. Given the unique economic terrain of Southeast Asia, to what extent this network engenders positive economic momentum and to what extent it can hamper further economic dynamism in the age of integrating markets?