Microfinance Mission Drift

By Roy Mersland, R. O. Strøm. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Focus on Women in Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “However, MFI financial performance is more than simply repayment; for example, it has recently been demonstrated how MFIs must decrease operating costs to ensure their focus on poor clients (Mersland and Strøm, 2010).”
Green Microfinance: Characteristics of Microfinance Institutions Involved in Environmental Management (2013, background): “However, the tests of parallel lines were always significant, pointing that the 10 Operational self-sufficiency is widely used as a proxy for financial performance in the microfinance sector (Cull et al. 2009; Lensink and Mersland 2009; Mersland and Strom 2010).”
Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions:a Data Envelopment Analysis application (2015, background): “…MFIs that has managed to grow its portfolio, i.e. termed as “scaling-up”, still perform well in terms of social efficiency or shift its focus toward financial efficiency, i.e. existence of “mission drift” (Copestake, M AN US CR IP T AC CE PT ED ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 27 2007a; Mersland & Strøm, 2010).”
Do microfinance institutions accomplish their mission? Evidence from the relationship between traditional financial sector development and microfinance institutions’ outreach and performance (2013, methodology): “According to Mersland and Strøm (2010), mission drift can be measured by increasing loan sizes of MFIs.”
Funding Financial Inclusion: Institutional Logics and the Contextual Contingency of Funding for Microfinance Organizations (2016, background): “…this, the practitioner literature suggests that microfinance funders rely heavily on size and financial performance to assess an MFO’s riskiness (Mersland & Strom, 2010; MicroRate, 2013).5 As one fund manager told us, “We like big and stable MFOs . . . ones that are the key players in their…”