Microfinance Trend Lines | Microbanking Bulletin, April 2008 (Issue No. 16)

The MBB Trend Lines use a peer group framework that draws on microfinance institutions that have reported for at least four consecutive years to MIX. The MBB also includes articles contributed by industry professionals. This issue includes articles on social performance, the economic exposure of microfinance institutions, and a brief on what practitioners and others view as risks, or "banana skins," for the industry. Articles in this issue:

Microfinance Banana Skins

*David Lascelles, Center for the Study of Financial Innovation*

Competing Business Models and the Microfinance Double Bottom Line

*Marc de Sousa Shields, Director, Small Enterprise and Capital Markets Unit, Enterprising Solutions Global Consulting*

Economic Exposure of Microfinance Institutions

*Peter R. Crabb, School of Business and Economics, Northwest Nazarene University*

A Transformative Period for Microfinance

*Blaine Stephens, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Analysis, MIX*

International Comparisons of Loan Balances per Borrower

*Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher, MIX*

Trend Lines Tables 2004 - 2006