The study finds that the industry's outreach rise in the period from 2003 to 2007 on
average by 22. 9 percent. It identified that while MFIs reach the very poor, their reach to
the disadvantages particularly to women is limited (38.4 Percent). From financial
sustainability angle, it finds that MFIs are operational sustainable measured by return on
asset and return on equity and the industry's profit performance is improving over time.