... (Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana and Nigeria). Surprisingly, controlling for the mother-, and child- level covariates (Model 5) resulted in increasedwithin-urban differentials in Burkina Faso and Chad ... tocontribute to the growing empirical literature on socioe-conomic inequalities in health in developing countries, by examining differences across urban and rural areas in health inequalities. ... explosion in developing countries and in SSA in particular, is accompanied by increasing urban poverty and malnutrition [2,5].Newly assembled evidence from developing countries indicates that the...