Loan Recovery in Maimana Islamic Investment and Finance Cooperative Microfinance Institution

MIIFC is one of the financial institutions operating in financial sector in Faryab province of Afghanistan. One of the most important problems of financial institutions is the recovery of the loans from the borrowers. The purpose of this study is to find the determinants of loan recovery in MIIFC micro finance institution. The statistical population of this research is the borrowers of MIIFC micro finance institution, the sample size is 300 and the stratified random sampling technique was employed. The study used both descriptive and inferential statistic, the quantitative method has been analysed by descriptive statistic with statistical package SPSS (24) and empirical analysis is conducted by using binary logistic regression model to stablish of all explanatory variables. The results show that from these variables, only economic and political situation, number of loans taken, penalty of delay, gender and debt guarantee have a significant relationship with loan repayment. The marital status, education level, age, monthly expenditure, loan utilization, literacy, income-increasing debt, relative location, type of loan, group loan, amount of repayment, repayment period, interest rate on the loan, number of families, loan utilization training and pre-loan purpose have no relationship with loan recovery.