INDICATORS OF ENDOWMENT GROWTH: CONCEPT, DIMENSIONS, AND MEASUREMENTS

Abstract

The endowment sector is witnessing continuous development, with increasing interest in it as a third economic sector alongside the public and private sectors. This phenomenon drives the need to strengthen, monitor, and evaluate its growth, and highlights interest in its development and the extension of evaluating its effectiveness and efficiency. This paper examines the importance of using indicators to measure and evaluate the growth of Islamic endowment (Waqf), highlighting the need for endowments in light of the expansion and prosperity of this sector. The current paper contributes to understanding the level of endowment growth and the extent to which it achieves its objectives. This paper explores indicators for measuring endowments' growth in terms of administrative, regulatory, economic, and social dimensions. Using a descriptive-analytical approach. This paper discusses the importance of indicators for measuring endowment growth and determining the primary features of these indicators in evaluating endowment institutions and analyzing the effects of their activities and programs. The research results show the importance of endowment growth indicators in evaluating endowment institutions. This paper concluded by providing suggestions for a framework to measure endowment growth that encompasses social, economic, and developmental dimensions, emphasizing the importance of evaluating the growth, effectiveness and efficiency of the systems adopted by endowment institutions