described for rural and urban areas in each country and the logistic regression model is constructed for each setting … independently. The results show that male sex and increasing age are associated with stunting in rural and urban children in both … the countries. The child’s size at birth is associated only in urban Rwanda and rural Burundi, and the fact that the child …

transform rural into urban but to preserve and capitalize the specificity of each area in order to increase the living standards …This article is an analysis of how the rural area was defined in the Romanian legislation starting with the oldest law … against the provisions of the European Charter of Rural Areas. It was found that the definition of rural area in Romania was …

conditions in the Romanian rural household reveal a series of disparities, the most obvious being the rural / urban divide, as …Living conditions in the rural area are precarious in Romania, our country being at the bottom of the European ranking … well as the disparities existing between different rural areas. The main hypothesis of the paper is the following: there is …

level. Furthermore, the analysis focused on the results based on the urban-rural typology, that pointed out some differences … between the competitiveness level, namely a lower level in the case of predominantly rural regions, compared to the … intermediate and predominantly urban ones. …

other inner territories; -between urban and rural areas, culture and science; that reduced the "quality" of services …, shops, hotels, ets. are built in the capital. In regional centers - fewer shops, hotels, etc. are built. And rural area … given in towns. Services gradually "leave" rural areas - many objects of social infrastructure are closed. The lack of …