Performance of Microfinance Institutions Under Economic Growth and Fluctuations: Evidence from South Asian Countries

Ujjal Protim Dutta () and Lipika Kankaria ()
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Ujjal Protim Dutta: Rangia College
Lipika Kankaria: National Institute of Technology Durgapur

Chapter Chapter 4 in Microfinance to Combat Global Recession and Social Exclusion, 2022, pp 51-62 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study aims to explore the different macroeconomic variables which affects the performances of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in South Asian Countries. To attain this objective in this study, it adopted initially the fixed effect and random effect methods to carry out the preliminary estimation on the panel data. Subsequently, fixed effect and system Generalised Method of Moment (GMM) are used to check the robustness of the results. The findings of this study suggest that GDP is one of the significant variables that effect the performance of microfinance institutions as the GDP per capita of country goes up, the performance of microfinance institutions comes down and vice versa. Since the performance of the MFIs is inversely related to the economic growth, it can be inferred that economic shocks or recession have lesser effect on the performance of the MFIs in South Asian nations. In contrast to this, the coefficient of size of the microfinance institutions is found to be positive. It implies that size of the microfinance institutions will positively affect the performance of the microfinance institutions.

Keywords: Microfinance institutions; Macroeconomic factors; GDP; Recession; GMM; Fixed effect; Random effect; South Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4329-3_4

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