When she died, therefore, a good chunk of the family's holdings would go to Francis, who, if he was going to be communing with God all day, would be a poor guardian of the enterprise.
Microcredit institutions, which generally make loans of $100 or less to individuals or small businesses, gained attention in the 1990s as a way to foster private enterprise in poor countries.
Poor Comcast — a humble enterprise "founded as a small company in Tupelo, MS," as Cohen writes — is now besieged by competition from Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Tim Cook, the mighty Verizon, and a reborn Ma Bell.
So should Frank Giustra, the Canadian billionaire who along with Bill Clinton has set up a joint effort to promote enterprise in poor countries, and whose business dealings have attracted a lot of attention.
Attempts by the British government to develop markets and boost private enterprise in poor countries – a key plank of the coalition's overseas aid strategy – have been criticised as unfocused, unrealistic and excessively ambitious in a bruising report from the UK aid watchdog.
The methodological implications of such a project would be similar to the scientific frame at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, which considers the ethics of biomedical research in the contexts of sub-Saharan Africa and transnational research as a central process for the acceptability and validity of the global scientific enterprise in poor communities.
Of the millions of small enterprises in poor countries, hardly any grow big and strong.
IT IS no longer unusual for enterprises from poor countries to gain entrée into rich ones through takeovers.
Mr. Denton, whose practice of poor-mouthing his own enterprise may have some competitive advantages, is not a complete blog bear.
The western Allies had good reason to be profoundly dissatisfied with the poor results of their enterprises of 1916, and this dissatisfaction was signalized by two major changes made at the end of the year.
