Study attempts to measure the efficiency level and its determinants of a sample of microfinance institutions operating in India by applying stochastic frontier approach for unbalanced panel of 40 microfinance institutions for the 2005-08. It has been found that mean efficiency level of...

The present study tried to empirically ascertain the relationship between financial orientation of microfinance institutions and their poverty outreach in Indian context. An unbalanced panel of 55 microfinance institutions covering the period 2005-2009 is taken. We relied mainly on the Hausman...