Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

 In order to study the “feasibility assessment of brokerage establishment for quality control of handmade carpets with an emphasis on domestic workrooms”, indicators and quality control criteria of these carpet have been compiled. These indicators have been prioritized according to the views of producers, exporters, professionals and experts of handmade carpets, and then, the pilot quality control of these carpets has been executed for handmade carpets of Kashan. Finally technical, social and economic feasibility of the brokerage establishment on the quality control have been examined based on the result of the pilot implementation and empirical experiments. It is noted that without the help and support of the government and due to lack of incentive of weavers to pay a fee to use the brokerage services, this is not economically feasible. 

 High unemployment rate in Iran has brought about some national projects of which one is Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Credits. A main sector that uses SME credits is handmade carpet industry. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of SME credits in East Azerbaijan, Khorasan Razavi and Qom provinces of Iran. Investigating factors associated with effectiveness of SME credits were income, cost, profit, labor and production of carpet weaver households for the years 2006, 2007 and 2010. The effectiveness of SME credits was evaluated using matching estimators. To achieve the purpose, the statistical population was divided into two groups of Control (carpet weavers who do not used SME credits) and Treatment (carpet weavers who used SME credits) group. Sampling performed through simple random sampling in each group. The results show that SME Credits had no significant impact on the income, cost, profit, labor and production of carpet weaver households in Khorasan Razavi and Qom provinces; however in the East Azerbaijan the credits had significant impact on the mentioned variables.