The Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB) actively encourages, promotes, induces and accelerates a sound and balanced industrial, economic, and social development of the country in order to provide jobs to the people, especially those in the rural areas, increase productivity and individual and family income, and thereby improve the level and quality of living conditions through the establishment, among others, of special economic zones in suitable and strategic locations in the country and through measures that will attract legitimate and productive foreign investments.