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Considering changes in economic conditions and global priorities in the last decade, development objectives such as poverty reduction and income distribution were typically cast in terms of economic growth. Therefore, poverty reduction through rural development was at the center of government development plan. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of government spending on the rural economic development. The development indicators included in the model comprise agricultural production, non-farm employment and poverty reduction. To this end, the elasticity of the above indicators is estimated with respect to rural infrastructures such as education, transportation, telecommunication and electricity capacity and then linkage between rural infrastructures and government spending are identified. A system of simultaneous equations approach is used to model and estimate the equations using the data over the period 1981-2005. Results of estimate indicate that government spending have positive and significant impact on the poverty reduction and non-farm employment.

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One of the important indexes of sustainable rural development is poverty. Fighting against poverty is a necessity in moving towards development. In post revolutionary Iran, in spite of all attempts to eradicate poverty, it still remains in many villages; and poverty alleviation programs could not find the main roots of it. The poverty of sample families was investigated considering the poverty of calorie consumption. To gather the necessary data for the research, the sample families of villages were selected using stratification random sampling. Relationships were analyzed with SPSS, and the tests included Pearson and Chi-square correlation tests. Arc GIS was used to produce the maps. Based on the obtained results, economical factors are more influential in forming poverty than social factors. Therefore, in codification of programs for rural poverty alleviation in this region, we should take into account both economical and social factors.