Observing choice of loan methods in not-for-profit microfinance using data envelopment snalysis

Abstract

Distributing loan using group lending method is one of the unique features in microfinance, as it utilises peer monitoring and dynamic incentive to lower credit risks in extending collateral-free loan to the poor. However, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) eventually perceive it to be costly and restricting loan growth thereby resorted to individual lending method to enhance profitability. On the other hand, village banking method was developed to boost outreach and to create self-sustaining village microbanks. We thus seek to empirically observe the loan method – efficiency relationship and to examine the best loan method regionally; focusing on not-for-profit MFIs that are widely regarded as best microfinance provider. Non-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis with regional meta-frontier approach is used for efficiency assessment of 628 MFIs from 87 countries in 6 regions, followed by Tobit regression. We also investigated factors affecting efficiencies such as borrowings, total donation, cost per borrower (CPB), portfolio at risk (PAR), interest rates, MFI age, regulation status, and legal format. The results support our argument that appropriate performance analysis should best be performed on regional basis separately as we find different results for different region.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.03.022
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management
Additional Information: Crown Copyright ©2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Uncontrolled Keywords: DEA,loan methodology,microfinance,not-for-profit efficiency,social performance,Engineering(all),Computer Science Applications,Artificial Intelligence
Publication ISSN: 1873-6793
Last Modified: 08 Jan 2024 08:22
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2017 08:50
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-03-24
Accepted Date: 2017-03-10
Submitted Date: 2016-08-02
Authors: Widiarto, Indra
Emrouznejad, Ali (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-8094-4244)
Anastasakis, Leonidas (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-2879-6613)

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