103. BIMP-EAGA also continues to be confronted with broader economic and development challenges which affect and is affected by connectivity issues, most of which have persisted since its inception in 1994. Some of the more pressing challenges are : (i) continued dependence on primary resource-based economic activities and little sub-regional investment flows in agro-industty which is the BIMP-EAGA focus; (ii) weak private sector with equally weak capacity to capitalise on oppotnities in the Indonesia and Phillippines components of EAGA which are major bottleneck to private sector investments. These broader development challenges faced by the BIMP-EAGA sub-regional initiative are described in detail in APpend 2.3.