4th Quarter 2012
2012 Approved Foreign Investments
Posts Highest Level
Since 1996
(NSCB-PR-20130402-ES4-01, Posted 02 April 2013)
Total approved foreign investments (FI) for 2012 surpassed the previous year’s record level of PhP 258.2 billion, up by 12.0 percent reaching PhP 289.1 billion worth of investment pledges. Likewise, the approved FI for Q4 2012 was the highest since 1996.
In the fourth quarter of 2012, total FI approved by seven investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) as well as Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB), BOI-Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BOI-ARMM), and Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), amounted to PhP 230.2 billion, 37.1 percent higher than PhP 167.9 billion approved in the same period of the previous year. [more]
Latest Key Figures
Table 1.
Total Approved FI by Investment Promotion Agency
(in million pesos)
Fourth Quarter, 2011 and 2012
| Agency | Approved FI | Percent to Total Q4 2012 | Growth Rate Q4 2011 - Q4 2012 |
|
| Q4 2011 | Q4 2012 | |||
| AFAB | 86.0 | 224.8 | 0.1 | 161.3 |
| BOI | 1,331.0 | 56,201.6 | 24.4 | 4,122.6 |
| BOI ARMM | - | - | - | - |
| CDC | 203.0 | 2,331.1 | 1.0 | 1,048.4 |
| CEZA | 208.9 | 20.2 | 0.0 | (90.3) |
| PEZA | 146,578.2 | 171,221.0 | 74.4 | 16.8 |
| SBMA | 19,511.1 | 216.7 | 0.1 | (98.9) |
| Total | 167,918.1 | 230,215.4 | 100.0 | 37.1 |
Sources of data: AFAB, BOI, BOI-ARMM, CDC, CEZA, PEZA, SBMA
Contact Information
For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Statistical Information Center at (632) 8952767, e-mail address info@nscb.gov.ph.
Focal Person
Mr. Raymundo J. Talento
Director
Economic Statistics Office
(632) 8952481
rj.talento@nscb.gov.ph
Updated: 02 April 2013
