RATING ASSESSMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES OF THE ULYANOVSK REGION ON A LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Despite importance and an urgent need for objects of social infrastructure, they endure serious crisis in connection with a lack of financial and material resources, low compensation, lack of the organizational and economic mechanism adequate to market economy, effective levers of social protection and support of the major branches of social services, education, health care, culture, housing and communal services. To create material preconditions for deep structurally functional reorganization and the subsequent growth, the effective system of criteria of a complex assessment of its social and economic development is necessary. In article the technique of a rating assessment of municipalities on a level of development of social infrastructure, its importance and need is considered at carrying out monitoring of economic and social situation of areas, identification of leading and lagging behind municipal areas. The offered technique of a rating assessment is based on a comprehensive, multidimensional approach to an assessment of such difficult phenomenon, as a level of development of social infrastructure. Besides, the rating assessment is comparative. It considers real achievements of all municipal regions of area on a level of development of social infrastructure.