Chapter 1: Beyond Banks: An Introduction Christiaan van Bochove, Juliette Levy -- Chapter 2: The Decline of a Great Financial Intermediary: Notaries in France, 1851-1934 Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- Chapter 3: Financial Intermediation in Colonial 17th- and...

Despite a wealth of expertise involving leading institutions over at least 15 years, a base of the pyramid (BoP) model resulting in scalability has yet to emerge. We posit that institutional gaps between BoP goals of developing human and social capital on one hand and a short-term profit focus...