Economist. Yunus Centre. Poverty, finance, development, health...
London, England
Joined March 2011
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Olga Biosca retweeted
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 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Olga Biosca retweeted
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
reformscotland.com/nhs2048/m…
Olga Biosca retweeted
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
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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
Olga Biosca retweeted
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.
joshmerfeld.github.io/assets… @Josh_Merfeld @JMorduch
Olga Biosca retweeted
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:
↪️ routledge.com/Social-Finance…
@obiosca
ALT Social Finance and Health, by Professor Olga Biosca, Neil McHugh and Professor Cam Donaldson, explores innovative ways for healthcare systems to access additional resources.
Olga Biosca retweeted
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
Olga Biosca retweeted
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 financialinclusionweek.org/2…
#inclusivefinance #fintech #gender #Financialinclusion #ClimateChange
Olga Biosca retweeted
🆕 | 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.
📲 eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor… @YunusCentreGCU
Olga Biosca retweeted
@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! gcu.ac.uk/research/researchc…
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🚨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: myjobscotland.gov.uk/educati…
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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.
Olga Biosca retweeted
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 🤞
Olga Biosca retweeted
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: bit.ly/3rPP9fs
Olga Biosca retweeted
11 tips to make your regression tables more comprehensible blogs.worldbank.org/impactev… from @dmckenzie001
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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 theguardian.com/business/202…
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Professor Olga Biosca explores the role #microfinance can play in #climate change #adaptation in this @e_MFP GICSF-AG webinar youtube.com/watch?v=_pYtbiDi…
@GCUclimatejust @karinhelwig @opportunityIntl @UrwegoBank
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Professor Olga Biosca, GCU will share the results of a research project in Rwanda on how MFI clients manage climate change effects and what MFIs can do to support them. Sign up to the webinar on Thursday 1st September at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Great @FT article on Yunus Centre research partners,@Scotcash & @FairFinance.
ft.com/content/45deb236-985b…
Community finance organisations helping folk through financial crisis in ways other institutions can't. /1