Abstract:
Though in the developed economies there is a trend to remove differences between rural and urban from the points of view of accommodation, infrastructure development, and ensuring services necessary for the population, which has resulted in a loss of significance of the traditional perception of the rural area as underdeveloped area, in Romania there is still a major discrepancy between rural and urban which is not beneficial for the Romanian rural area. The authors will present partial results of the researches done in the frame of a complex project in progress, project realized by a team of specialists from 8 research institutes and prestigious universities from Romania. The paper will present also two questionnaires, realized by the research team, referring to Romanian village monograph, respective to the development degree of a family housekeeping. Taking in consideration the large territory considered that belongs to rural space it can be understand the importance of knowing the real situation, the degree and the future development of Romanian rural space.