Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

 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.

Handmade Carpet has very importance roles in economics of the country and resilient economy. This importance by of features the artistic, economic and other characteristic. In this time, Academic education plays an important role in the growth of this arts-industries. Therefore, it is essential to accurate assessment of the course. In this study post graduate course in carpet was evaluate at based on CIPP model. The research methodology has been quantitative-qualitative and statistical Society are master Students, graduates and professors in course study. This research was carried out with questionnaires of 219 samples in four dimensions of necessity, infrastructure, purposes and needs. A randomized sampling method was selected from the administrated universities. The validity of the questionnaire was 816/0 by alpha Cronbach. In additional to statistical population 23 experts were interviewed. The interview by social snow ball method and sample saturation. The result shows the necessity this course is confirmed. But cultural and labor market infrastructure have not been considered of this course and needs review. There is also a significant difference between the view of the labor market and academics needs to substantial in both.