Philippine Institute for Development Studies

February 13, 2019

Dear Gwendolyn,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Feb 01, 2019 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for Build Build Build Program Opportunities for Investment.
You requested for the data on the following:
1.	Statistics on foreign investment (more particularly, Japanese) in the country for the past 3 years and projections for the current and following year (e.g. number of investors, amount of investment, etc.)
2.	Overview of investment plans (priority sectors/new regulations and schemes/ new projects, investment opportunities, areas of concerns, etc.) of the country for 2019 and succeeding years, particularly on foreign (especially, Japanese investors)

Response to your request

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance, this Office does not produce the data for the information you have requested. In relation to the specific topic of your request, PIDS makes use of administrative data from other agencies for our research studies. However, you may want to get in touch with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for data on foreign direct investments and the Board of Investments for information topics concerning investments on the following websites:
•	http://www.bsp.gov.ph/
•	http://boi.gov.ph/
•	https://psa.gov.ph/psa-press-release-tags/foreign-investments

You may also want to look at some PIDS publications available on our website (link here: https://www.pids.gov.ph/publications) for other related information that you may deem useful. Some of our publications titled ‘Philippines-Japan Free Trade Agreement: Analyzing Its Potential Impact Using a Computable General Equilibrium Model’ (link: https://dirp4.pids.gov.ph/ris/dps/pidsdps0440.pdf) and ‘Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA): Toward a Framework for Regional Economic Integration’ (link: https://pascn.pids.gov.ph/files/Discussions%20Papers/2010/pidsdps1019.pdf)) may have the information that you need. You can find similar publications by searching for specific key words in the given link. 

For further assistance you may review the FAQ section of the eFOI site: https://msc20190130v2-dot-efoi-ph.appspot.com/help.

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by writing to the Central Appeals and Review Committee through jluna@mail.pids.gov.ph. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result, within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,
John Zernan Luna
FOI Officer