Abstract

Despite enormous economical developments, now millions of people around the world that mostly live in rural areas, are  still in  poverty. Thus, supplying social welfare and poverty reduction is the main objectives of any economical system . thus  providing suitable conditions for the life of all classes of  the society requires proper planning and strategies for financing including investmet in the rural development  with the aim of variation of employment and income. The aim of this study is to review the role of privae sector investment in mitigation of rural poverty in the villages of Saeen Ghale of Abhar county in Zanjan province.  Type of research is the applied one and the used method is analytical- descriptive one and for data gathering , field  and Library methods have been used. The statistical society is 3343 households in Saeen Ghale village  that based on  modified Cochran formula, 104 questionnaires were randomly distributed among rural households in the study area. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics (T tests, Friedman, Wilcoxon, Solidarity) and Vikor model has been applied.Research findings show that there is a significant correlation between private sector investment and poverty reduction in the rural areas. So that most of average values for the considered components were higher than the average limit and shows that the investment of private sector has caused significant changes in the components of reduction of rural poverty used in the current rural area. Also spatial analysis of the impact of private investment on the indices of rural poverty in the considered area shows that among the rural areas, a great deal of differences can be observed, so that among the sample villages , Saien Ghale has the best and Arhan village has the least rank in the enjoyment of private investment in the improvement of rural poverty indicators.