The report focuses on the probability of certain classifiable businesses’ attainment of federal contracts using more recent Federal contracting data. MBDA’s analysis finds that on an industry-by-industry basis, in nearly all cases, the odds of non-8(a) minority-owned small disadvantage businesses winning contracts , all else equal (size, age, legal organization, level of government clearance)...

Published by : Minority Business Development Agency The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) first tackled the question of an opportunity gap approximately twenty years ago and proposed the concept of parity as an approach to answering it. This publication provides the reader with the Agency’s current methodology for calculating entrepreneurial parity which is used to illustrate the gap...

Click to view and download This report examines the key determinants of business development on tribal reservations. A defining feature of tribal reservations is economic geography as most tribal reservations are located in rural or remote areas. Not surprisingly, many economic and socioeconomic characteristics of tribal reservations mirror that of the rural United States. In terms of business...

Published by : Minority Business Development Agency The report looks at the current and potential future contributions of employer minority firms and the key underlying drivers in their contribution to the U.S. macroeconomy. By using simple linear trends in the historical and current contributions of employer minority firms to the U.S. economy and projecting these trends forward, a baseline is...

Click to view and download Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) offer higher educational opportunities for American Indian students and are unique in that they combine cultural relevance with their degree outcomes. TCUs offer associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees, as well as vocational programs and certificates. This paper considers the role of TCUs and in particular the role of TCU...

Published by : Minority Business Development Agency The report spotlights disparities in state and local government contracting between minority-owned and nonminority-owned business enterprises, provides an in-depth review and analysis of disparity studies, summaries, and reports.

Published by : Minority Business Development Agency The report provides expanded information regarding disparities in state and local government contracting between minority-owned and nonminority-owned business enterprises, provides an in-depth review and analysis of disparity studies, summaries, and reports.

Published by : Minority Business Development Agency Minority Exporters: Characteristics and Strategies for New Business and Expansion U.S. Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency By: Sharon T. Freeman, Ph.D. Published Fiscal Year 2015 This publication was developed by the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), a bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Sharon T...

Published by : Minority Business Development Agency As of 2007, 28,531 minority business enterprises (MBEs) generated products and services valued at over $30 billion, representing 17.5 percent of all classifiable exporting businesses in the United States. 2 This report, Minority Exporters: Characteristics and Strategies for New Business and Expansion, characterizes the nature of MBE exporters to...

Published by : Minority Business Development Agency Capital access remains the most important factor limiting the establishment, expansion and growth of minority-owned businesses. The report provides an in-depth review and analysis of the barriers to capital access experienced by minority entrepreneurs, and the consequences that limited financial sources are placing on expanding minority-owned...