Olga Biosca

Economist. Yunus Centre. Poverty, finance, development, health...

[Cam Donaldson @DonaldsonCam]

Latest from Glasgow Caledonian University’s Yunus Centre, @obiosca @YunusCentreGCU @GCUResearch, questioning the impact of randomised trials of micro finance:
Full article: Microfinance trials on trial https://t.co/VZwxOlcCKY

[Cam Donaldson @DonaldsonCam]

Are UK Governments failing to serve the worst off in terms of access to fair or credit? Second piece summarising deliberations in our book Social Finance & Health @YunusCentreGCU @GCUResearch
https://t.co/mgeXqWSig0

[Cam Donaldson @DonaldsonCam]

Such a pleasure to share the stage and chat to Professor Muhammad Yunus, our Emeritus Chancellor and inspiration for the Annual Social Business Academia Conference, currently taking place at the amazing Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. ⁦@YunusCentreGCU⁩

[Rachel Baker @Rachmb25]

Privileged to be gathering in support of Professor Yunus during his visit to the UK. And to see him looking well during a difficult time, facing charges in Bangladesh. Good to hear Clooney Foundation report that finds charges without foundation. Thanks to @SocialEnt_UK

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

Super interesting:

The way we measure global poverty focuses -- inadvertently, but perhaps usefully -- pretty heavily on households' ability to cope with shocks, rather than their average income over the year.

https://t.co/ty2ggeSRah @Josh_Merfeld @JMorduch

[Glasgow Caledonian University @CaledonianNews]

GCU's Professor Olga Biosca, Neil McHugh and Professor Cam Donaldson, have co-authored a new book titled Social Finance and Health.

It explores innovative ways for healthcare systems to access additional resources. 📚

Find out more:
↪️ https://t.co/ODuatfcKZS

@obiosca

[Yunus Centre, GCU @YunusCentreGCU]

Elena Magli and #RealAccounts team will be discussing our #research today in #Birmingham and #online at the #PersonalFinancialWellbeing Research Conference. Looking forward to it! #FinWell
@NESTInsight @CPFW_Aston @YunusCentreGCU @MoneyPensionsUK @MoneyandPensionsService

[Yunus Centre, GCU @YunusCentreGCU]

Financial Inclusion Week 23 #FIW23 sessions, with Yunus Centre’s @obiosca & colleagues discussing Holistic Approaches to Develop Climate Smart Agriculture in #SAM23 can be accessed here https://t.co/sl6qi6hhS1
#inclusivefinance #fintech #gender #Financialinclusion #ClimateChange

[Glasgow Caledonian University @CaledonianNews]

🆕 | Professor Olga Biosca (@obiosca) will examine how income and financial management can impact people's quality of life at the latest Glasgow Caledonian Professorial Lecture.

📲 https://t.co/0YHHPy26Nu @YunusCentreGCU

[Michael Mikulewicz @MMikulewicz]

Very excited to announce the release of a book I had the pleasure of co-editing with @kavyamichael and @neil9709 which foregrounds CJ scholarship and activism from the Majority World. Thank you to all of our amazing contributors! ✊🌍

More info here: https://t.co/jYSyS7Qjua

[Yunus Centre, GCU @YunusCentreGCU]

@obiosca great to attend @mmhpi @MartinSLewis meeting discussing the impact of #CostOfLivingCrisis on mental health. The ask is that #mentalhealth and #debtadvice support is joined up! Resonates with findings from #FinWell. Good to have MPs listening! https://t.co/d29gHgGBkx

[Jon Yates @jonpayates]

If you enjoyed this thread and want to pass it on, here's the first tweet to retweet :-) https://t.co/M8nL6GejhN

[Yunus Centre, GCU @YunusCentreGCU]

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY IN THE YUNUS CENTRE🚨 We are looking for a researcher to join the team for a project funded by Nest Insight to continue exploring financial volatility, health and coping mechanisms in low-and-middle-income households in UK: Apply here: https://t.co/hLAoPGCeAj

[Olga Biosca @obiosca]

📢📢📢 #JobAlert Come and join our @YunusCentreGCU team! #research #Health #poverty #FinancialInclusion #EconTwitter

[Yunus Centre, GCU @YunusCentreGCU]

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY IN THE YUNUS CENTRE🚨 We are looking for a researcher to join the team for a project funded by Nest Insight to continue exploring financial volatility, health and coping mechanisms in low-and-middle-income households in UK: Apply here: https://t.co/hLAoPGCeAj

[Olga Biosca @obiosca]

Happy to start 2023 with a #JobAlert! We are planning a new #UK-wide #research project. If you are an #Economist, #researcher, interested in #financialdiaries and #CostOfLivingCrisis, and want to feed into #policy, email me for info or watch this space. #Econtwitter #postdocjobs

[Yunus Centre, GCU @YunusCentreGCU]

Fatma Ibrahim, PhD researcher @YunusCentreGCU receiving the French Human Rights award for the work of @thesextalkarabi, an NGO aiming at tackling sexual violence towards women and LGBTQ+ individuals in Arabic-speaking societies, through support, education, and advocacy.

[Martin Coppack @martin_coppack]

VERY pleased to see new cross-party amendment for @TheFCA to have a new ‘regard to financial inclusion’. Presently the financial regulator doesn’t even have to consider - never mind address - the needs of financially excluded. Have everything crossed this succeeds 🤞

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Human health & planetary health are irrevocably intertwined. We, @WHO Council on the @Economy4Health, are calling on leaders at #COP27 to change the direction of public & private finance towards meeting social, environmental and climate goals.
Read more: https://t.co/LxmJFDnHO8

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

11 tips to make your regression tables more comprehensible https://t.co/18UdpMvaja from @dmckenzie001

[Tom Pollard @PollardTom]

Although it's shocking to read, it should come as no surprise that ten years of an increasingly inadequate & punitive benefits system, combined with the decimation of public services, had a very real & tragic impact on the health of people on low incomes https://t.co/D6I6XcV3k5