Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

BOOK

2012. State Structure, Policy Formation, and Economy Development in Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines. Routledge. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

2023. "The Changing Nature of Philippine Conglomerates from a Political Economy Perspective." In Philippine Conglomerates And Inclusive Development: Tracking A Unique Trajectory In Asia, edited by Philamer C Torio, Rodolfo P Ang and Imelda Deinla. World Scientific Publishing Company. (Forthcoming).
2023. "New Industrial Development Path Based on IT Service Business in the Case of the Philippines." In Base of the Pyramid and Business Process Outsourcing Strategies: In the Age of SDGs, edited by Takabumi Hayashi, Hiroshi Hoshino and Yoshie Hori, 161-170. Singapore: Springer.
2019. "Anticorruption Campaigns, Regime Change, and the Proprietary Polity: The Philippine Case." In The Political Logics of Anticorruption Efforts in Asia, edited by Cheng Chen and Meredith L. Weiss, 23–48. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
2017. "Philippine Services Sector: Domestic Policy and Global Markets." In Southeast Asia Beyond Crises and Traps: Economic Growth and Upgrading, edited by Boo Teik Khoo, Keiici Tsunekawa, and Motoko Kawano, 225–249. Palgrave Macmillan.
2015. "The BPO Industry and the Philippine Trade in Services: Boon or Bane?" In The Local Impact of Globalization in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Bart Lambregts, Niels Beerepoot, and Robert C. Kloosterman, 46–59. Routledge.  Read a brief excerpt