Abstract
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide, by definition, financial services to people excluded from the traditional banking system, often the poor. Unlike managers of traditional banking institutions, managers of MFIs are required to watch both the social performance (SP) and financial performance (FP) of their institutions. The assessment of these two dimensions of an MFI’s performance has been a subject of various studies. Since the early 1990s, different authors have addressed the assessment of SP and FP either separately or simultaneously (for instance, Yaron, 1992; Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Navajas et al., 1998, Paxton, 2002; Shreiner and Woller, 2003; Gutiérrez-Nieto et al., 2007; Polanco, 2005; Cull et al., 2007; Gueyié et al., 2010; Nzongang et al., 2010 and Hermes et al., 2011). A recurring concern of these studies was to find a robust, but easy to use means of assessing both SP and FP. The use of traditional banking techniques such as ratio analysis, parametric methods, regression and so on, can prove inadequate (Gueyié et al., 2010; Nzongang et al., 2010). These authors have presented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a valuable methodology for the assessment of MFIs’ performance. Their goal was to enrich the toolbox of managers of MFIs with a new technique that can provide guidance for decision-making.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Asselin, L. M. and A. Dauphin (2000) ‘Mesure de la pauvreté: Un cadre conceptuel’, Document de travail de l’atelier régional de formation sur la mesure et le diagnostic de la pauvreté, Libreville, 23–31 July.
Banker, R. D., R. F. Charnes and W. W. Cooper (1984) ‘Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis’, Management Science, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1078–92.
Carroll, A. B. (1979) ‘A Three Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Social Performance’, Academy of Management Review, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 497–505.
Charnes, A., W. W. Cooper and E. Rhodes (1978) ‘Measuring the Efficiency of Decision-making Units’, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 2, pp. 429–44.
Cheston, S., L. Reed, V. Harper, L. Hill, N. Horn, S. Salib and M. Walen (2005) ‘Comment mesurer la transformation: Une évaluation et amélioration de l’impact du microcrédit’, Réunion des Assemblées du Sommet du Microcrédit, 24–26 June.
Coelli, T. J. (1996) ‘A Guide to DEAP Version 2.1: A Data Envelopment Analysis (Computer) Program’, CEPA Working Paper 96/8, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Australia.
Cooper, W. W., L. M. Seiford and K. Tone (2002) Data Envelopment Analysis, A Comprenhensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software, 3rd ed. (Boston/Dordrecht/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers).
Cull, R., A. Dermirguç-Kunt and J. Morduch (2007) ‘Financial Performance and Outreach: A Global Analysis of Leading Microbanks’, The Economic Journal, vol. 117, no. 517, pp. F107–F133.
de Briey, V. (2005) ‘Pleins feux sur la microfinance en 2005’, Regards Economiques, vol. 28, pp. 1–14.
Ghatak, M. and T. Guinnane (1999) ‘The Economics of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice’, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 195–228.
Gueyié, J. P., J. R. Kala Kamdjoug and E. Nishimikijimana (2010) ‘Efficience des Institutions de Microfinance Regroupées en Réseau: Cas des Mutuelles Communautaires de Croissance du Cameroun’, La Revue des Sciences de Gestion, no. 243–4, May-August, pp. 103–09.
Gutiérrez-Nieto, B., C. Serrano-Cinca and C. Mar-Molinero (2005) ‘Microfinance Institutions and Efficiency’, International Journal of Management Science, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 131–42.
Hamed, Y. (2004) Microcrédit et Financement de la Microentreprise au Maghreb, Thèse de Doctorat, Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 12.
Hermes, N., R. Lensink and A. Meesters (2011) ‘Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions’, World Development, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 938–48.
Hwang, S. N., and T. C. Kao (2006) ‘Measuring Managerial Efficiency in Non-life Insurance Companies: An Application of Two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis’, International Journal of Management, vol. 23, no. 2, Part 2, pp. 699–720.
Lafoucarde, A. L., J. Isern, P. Mwangi and M. Brown (2005) ‘Overview of the Outreach and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Africa’, Microfinance exchange Information, April.
Luzzi, F. G. and S. Weber (2006) ‘Measuring the Performance of Microfinance Institutions’, in B. Balkenhol (ed.), Microfinance and Public Policy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 153–69.
Microcredit and Summit Campaign (2010) ‘Formulaire de Vérification, MC2Network/ADAF’, a Project of the Results Educational Fund, Washington, DC.
Montalieu, T. (2002) ‘Les Institutions de Microcrédit: Entre Promesses et Doutes. Quelles Pratiques Bancaires Pour Quels Effets?’, Mondes en Développement, vol. 119, no. 3, pp. 21–32.
Morduch, J. (2000) ‘The Microfinance Schism’, World Development, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 617–29.
Navajas, S., M. Schreiner, R. C. Meyer, C. Gozalez-Vega and J. Rodriguez-Meza (2000) ‘Microcredit and the Poorest of the Poor: Theory and Evidence from Bolivia’, World Development, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 333–46.
Nzongang, J., J. R. Kala Kamdjoug, I. Piot-Lepetit, G. R. Omenguele and E. Nishimikijimana (2010) ‘Efficience Technique des IMF du Réseau des Mutuelles Communautaires de Croissance (MC2) au Cameroun’, Revue Sciences de Gestion, ISEOR, no. 77, pp. 93–110.
Olszyna-Marzys, R. (2006) ‘Microfinance Institutions: Profitability at the Service of Outreach? A Study of the Microfinance Industry in the ECA Region’, College of Europe Bruges Campus. European Economic Studies Department.
Paxton, J. (2002) ‘Depth of Outreach and Its Relation to the Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions’, Savings and Development, Giordano Dell’Amore Foundation, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 69–85.
Polanco, O. F. (2005) ‘Commercializing Microfinance and Deeping Outreach? Empirical Evidence from Latin America’, Journal of Microfinance, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 47–69.
Preston, L. E. and D. P. O’Bannon (1997) ‘The Corporate Social-Financial Performance Relationship: A Typology and Analysis’, Business & Society, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 419–29.
Schreiner, M. and G. Woller. (2003) ‘Microenterprise in the First and Third Worlds’, World Development, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1567–1580.
Seiford, L. M. and J. Zhu (1999) ‘Profitability and Marketability of the Top 55 US Commercial Banks’, Management Science, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1270–88.
Woller, G.M., C. Dunford and W Woodworth (1999) ‘Where to Microfinance?’, International Journal of Economic Development, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 29–64.
Woller, G. M. and M. Schreiner (2002) ‘Poverty Lending, Financial Self-sufficiency and the Six Aspects of Outreach’, available online at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/gm/document-1.9.28981/50.pdf (accessed 2 June 2012).
Yaron, J. (1992) ‘Successful Rural Finance Institutions’, World Bank Discussion Paper 150 (Washington, DC: World Bank).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2013 Joseph Nzongang and Eloge Nishimikijimana
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Nzongang, J., Nishimikijimana, E. (2013). Social and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis Application. In: Manos, R., Gueyié, JP., Yaron, J. (eds) Promoting Microfinance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034915_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034915_8
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-44205-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-03491-5
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance CollectionEconomics and Finance (R0)