Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Haq, Mamiza; Skully, Michael T.; Pathan, Shams

doi:10.1007/s10690-009-9103-7

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“…Since its introduction, DEA has been extensively employed in economic analysis to calculate measures of efficiencies in various situations and industries, such as transportation [29,31,32], government and public sector [33][34][35], public utilities [21,22,[36][37][38], healthcare [39][40][41], education [42,43], banking and finance [44,45], energy and environmental studies [46][47][48][49][50][51][52], manufacturing and information technology [53][54][55][56].…”

Section: Dea Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy

Storto

2018

Sustainability

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This paper presents a benchmarking study of the water and wastewater industry in Italy. A three-stage modeling approach was implemented to measure the efficiency of 53 utility operators. This approach is based on the implementation of network and conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) to model the production process of the water service utility operators. In comparison to the conventional black-box or one-stage production model generally adopted in previous studies, the proposed approach provides information relative to the different efficiency components of the stages and blocks of the water service production process and its overall efficiency. Further, by shifting the efficiency analysis to a two-dimensional performance space, i.e., resource and market-efficiency, it offers a more comprehensive view of the water service industry and allows accounting for different business goals at the same time and for an investigation of industry trade-offs. Results show that the operators' efficiencies in the Italian water service industry are generally variable and low. There are no water service utilities which are 100% efficient from the resource-efficiency perspective, and the maximum efficiency score is 0.545. Efficiency measurements suggest that there is a general orientation of the Italian water industry to not invest in upgrading and improving the infrastructure assets, and achieving an acceptable efficiency in the operations is critical to delivering water services to market in an efficient way. Only one utility operator is 100% efficient from the market-efficiency perspective. The low tariffs adopted by the water service operators do not allow the gaining of satisfactory service remuneration and the achievement of long-term business sustainability. The joint analysis of the resource and market efficiency scores indicates that there is a trade-off between the corresponding business goals.

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Section: Dea Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy

Storto

2018

Sustainability

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“…That is why there are many studies putting an emphasis on such a measurement such as Haq, Skully, and Pathan (2010) had implemented the data envelope analysis to analyze the operation efficiency of community financial institutions in Bangladesh, the 2011 study on the scalability and performance of the community financial institutions conducted by implementing the stochastic frontier analysis of Lensink and Meesters (2011), and the study of Louis, Seret, and Baesens (2013) on financial performance and social impact of the financial community institutions done by using independent management plan. Meanwhile, analyzing the relation between interest rates and legally acceptable profits, Roberts (2013) explored the profit adjustment of the community financial institutions and the interest efficiency by using Ordinary Least Squared (OLS) concept.…”

Section: Measurement Of Micro Finance Institution Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Factor Affecting Technical Change of Credit Union Co-operative in Upper Northern of Thailand

Phaoumnuaywit¹,

Sriwichailamphan²,

Panthamit³

2016

JMC

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Credit union co-operatives are organized for supporting poor people who are difficult to find funding sources for improvement their economic security. Majority of the credit unions co-operatives are made up of members who are currently working in the agricultural sectors. However some of credit union co-operatives have members who are working in non-agriculture sectors, they use credit union co-operatives to improve quality as farmer. The main objective in this paper is comparison of technical operation efficiency of the credit unions agriculture and non-agriculture sector with sample size of 170 groups from eight provinces in the upper northern region of Thailand, using the Malmquist Productivity Index Approach.

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“…For the studies related to institutionalist school, the focus is mainly on the efficiency of MFIs to generate profit and to reach more the poor people. Measures such as profitability (Kamukama, 2010;Kamukama, 2011), sustainability (Thapa, 2009;Kinde, 2012) and efficiency (Caudill, Gropper, & Hartarska, 2009;Haq, Skully, & Pathan, 2010) used as single dimensions to measure the performance based on the view of institutional school.…”

Section: Microfinance Institutions Performancementioning

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TQM and Performance Linkage in the Microfinance Institutions: The Mediating Role of IT Capability

Homaid¹,

Minai²,

Rahman³

2015

ASS

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The link between Total Quality Management (TQM) and organizational performance measures has become of great interest to both researchers and practitioners alike during the last decade. However, a thorough literature review has revealed such relationship is not being studied in the microfinance institutions and, furthermore, on the effect on Information Technology (IT) capability of such relationship. This paper is written based on a study done to examine the nature of such relationship that revealed the mediating effect of IT capability in the relationship between TQM and the performance of microfinance banks in Yemen. The study was conducted in 2014 using a questionnaire survey covering 78 branch managers. Using Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS), the results provide a significant relationship between TQM and microfinance institutional performance and also a significant mediating effect of IT capability on the relationship. The elements representing the variables under study are presented and some practical suggestions and contributions are highlighted in the conclusion.

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Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract: Africa, Asia, Data envelopment analysis, Efficiency, Latin America, Micro finance institutions,

Cited by 147 publications

References 25 publications

Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy

Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy

Factor Affecting Technical Change of Credit Union Co-operative in Upper Northern of Thailand

TQM and Performance Linkage in the Microfinance Institutions: The Mediating Role of IT Capability

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