Access to sought-after knowledge can make a person more central in their networks. In Malawian schools, students with exclusive access to online information became social hubs, as others connected to them for indirect access. Policies that target initially well-connected people may underperform, as networks change endogenously.

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Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV

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Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.

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