This research explores whether the objectives of social responsibility and financial performance of microfinance institutions can be balanced. In addition to the social responsibility goal of helping the poor, microfinance institutions also need to achieve financial goals which enable the institutions themselves to survive and develop. If dual goals can be achieved, microfinance may become an important mean for developing countries to escape poverty. In this regard, the research focuses on micro-finance institutions in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and China using multiple regression models to study. Financial performance variables are used as the explained variables, and social responsibility performance variables are used as the explanatory variables to discuss the impact of the promotion of social responsibility on financial performance. If the aforementioned impact is positive, it means that social goals and financial performance goals can be balanced. This research found that generally speaking promotion of social performance variables has a positive impact on financial performance (including profitability, efficiency, employee productivity and other indicators). The empirical results show that if social responsibility performance variables such as customer retention rate (BRR), female borrower ratio(WOP) and number of borrowing customers(NUB) increase, financial performance will also increase, similar to the findings of recent literature such as Reichert(2018) and Meyer (2019) . This research is the first in the literature to use shareholder's return on equity (ROE) as a financial performance variable, and found that its empirical results are almost the same as the results using total asset return (ROA) as a financial performance variable.