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They said GTA should be required to provide fair access to competitors to keep prices low. Lawmakers this week held a public hearing on a bill that would allow the governor to negotiate and issue a lease for GTA’s latest underwater cable project. The bill was introduced after GTA’s efforts to get a lease from the CHamoru Land Trust Commission, which owns the submerged lands, stalled last year. “I think the government needs to go into this with their eyes wide open,” and not just rely on information provided by GTA, said John Day, president of Pacific Data Systems. “The government�...

The Covid-19 crisis has made the importance of data sharing more urgent than ever. For the island nations of the Pacific, ensuring a ready flow of information to support decision-making is critical. Robust data-sharing systems will be instrumental in helping countries collaborate with one another, regional organisations reshape and adapt the support they provide to their member states, and global organisations “hit the target” more precisely with funding development programs in the region. As commentators have previouslyobserved, while the individual nations of the Pacific have collected ...

December 11 links: Expensive publishing, DAGs & linking errors, waning research on China and where is overstudied, and more… ·       A review paper in Science on the links between poverty, depression and anxiety by Ridley, Rao, Schilbach and Patel – including a round-up of experimental impacts of poverty reduction projects on mental health, and of mental health improvement interventions on labor supply. ·       In the Royal Economic Society newsletter, Dina Pomeranz offers an introduction to #Econtwitter ·       At VoxDev, Suresh de Mel and co-authors summarize their ...