SEMI-FORMAL ISLAMIC MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA: THE EXPERIENCE OF AL-HAYAT RELIEF FOUNDATION

Competition between Microfinance Institutions and the Formal Banking Sector

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

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 the...

Performance Analysis of Banks and Microfinance Institutions in India

Present paper intends to measure the determinants of performance of Indian financial sector. The performance variables of banking sector and microfinance institutions in India are studied over a study period of six years i.e. 2006-07 to 2011-12. The financial sector of India is gaining strength over the years and its contribution to growth is overwhelming. Banks are considered the main componen...

Measuring the Performance of Microfinance Institutions

Investigating the performance of Qarzat al-Hasna institutions in production as micro-financing institutions in Iran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of Qarzat al-Hasna institutions as microfinance institutions in Iran. For this purpose, the statistical information of the country's banking system in the period 2009 to 2020 and the panel data method were used. In order to estimate this relationship, diagnostic tests were performed on the research variables and finally the experiment...