Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions: A Data Envelopment Analysis application

Indra Widiarto and Ali Emrouznejad

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2015, vol. 50, issue C, 1-17

Abstract: Microfinance has been developed as alternative solution for global poverty alleviation effort in the last 30 years. Microfinance institution (MFI) has unique characteristic wherein they face double bottom line objectives of outreach to the poor and financial sustainability. This study proposes a two-stage analysis to measure Islamic Microfinance institutions (IMFIs) performance by comparing them to conventional MFIs. First, we develop a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to measure MFIs' efficiency in its double bottom line objectives, i.e. in terms of social and financial efficiency. In the second stage non-parametric tests are used to compare the performance and identify factors that contribute to the efficiency of IMFIs and MFIs.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Islamic microfinance; Microfinance institutions; Efficiency; Performance measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2014.12.001

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