Prioritizing and ranking villages in Kiar County based on their services amount and infrastructure indices

Reviewing rural development literature indicates that despite the efforts that have made on eliminating inequalities in distributing services among different areas, there still exists some kind of inequality and imbalance in the field, especially between Iran Villages. According to the previous assessments, village's development rates are yet heterogeneous and unequal considering developmental indexes. So, to obtain rural development the first essential and undeniable step is to identify the village's present status quo of services and the way of distributing facilities among them. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to study and rank villages in Kiar County according to their services amount using centrality index model. In this regard, this paper applied analytic-descriptive methodology and used 8 major services indices and 75 indicators in ranking villages in Kiar. The results indicated that the village's development level and accessibility to services are unequal, unfair and heterogeneous in such a way that among all the villages studied, 4 ones received the top-notch services which made a large gap between other villages. These villages include Dastgerd Emamzade, Dezzak, and Kharaji with 8/48, 8/03, and 6/15 scores respectively.