Abstract

In rural areas, many economic activities have declined in recent decades and the income and employment level of villagers has decreased compared to the average of the country, so new options should be considered using local resources. In recent decades, the approach of entrepreneurship has been considered as one of the strategies of rural development and theorists, planners and executors have sought to provide new solutions and methods and continuous and effective evaluations of policies, programs and functions, develop and improve the capacity of entrepreneurship and enable better decision-making and planning. In this regard, this paper has been prepared with the aim of evaluating the impact of economic factors on rural entrepreneurship development in villages of Kalat. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical method. The research tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed based on Delphi technique and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 48 villages with a population of more than 100 people in Kalat city, 20% of which (10 villages) were selected as samples and spatial distribution of questionnaires was performed in them. The final results show that the most effective economic factor on the development of rural entrepreneurship in the villages of Kalat city is introducing suitable investment grounds with an average of 4.25 and in the next order is the factor of holding skill courses with an average of 4.2. Also, the least important factor is two factors of granting low-interest loans and marketing for products produced with an average of 3.3.