Ownership Forms and Costs of Operations of Microfinance Institutions in Cameroon

• 作者: Joseph Magloire Nyobe
• 来源期刊: 现代会计与审计:英文版
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: MICROFINANCE performance organisation ownership form transaction costs Cameroon
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（6）
• 页码范围: 264-277
• 页数: 14页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

This paper investigates on the relative costs of operations of microfinance institutions(MFIs)in Cameroon with regard to their ownership forms.We extracted data from MIX Market which included 31 MFIs over the period 2001-2017.On processing data though a multinomial logistic regression,we found out that affiliated Credit Unions were the most cost-efficient organisational form,but the portfolio efficiency was nearly the same all across ownership patterns.Affiliated Credit Unions underwent the lowest operating expenses whereas Microbanks significantly reported the highest financial expenses.Also,we did not find any significant differences between personnel productivity across ownership forms.