My suggestion is that mission drift is discernible in the performance of the MFI; in both the financial performance and the outreach performance.

1. increasing return on assets

2. increasing agency costs

3. less breadth and more depth in the loan portfolio.

There are reasonably accepted proxies for these three used in prior research.

Attached please find my paper on mission statements.

Thank You Sir for your answers.

 dear Swati:

                   As a general rule, mission drift is measured by the amount of money per credit. The bigger the credit, the wealthier the client. That is easily measured through the average credit of an MFI. There are several papers on the subject because it is a very important matter in microfinance, for instance Armendáriz, B. y Szafarz, A. (2009): “Microfinance Mission drift”. You can also see Rosemberg´s paper on measures and indexes for this use.

Regards

thank you sir.