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This paper examines how an areas development milieu affects the various components of the migration process. After reviewing the literature on migration-development interrelationships, we employ conventional statistical modeling to understand movement among Costa Rican cantons during a live-year period (1968-73). This is done for the country as a whole, enabling cross-national comparisons with earlier studies, and for urban-to-urban. urban-lo-rural. rural-to-urban, and rural-to-rural streams, which are compared with one another. The results indicate that the models describe urban-based migrations better than rural-based ones; variables closely associated with the market economy have a weaker role in rural settings: and push factors of migration are as important as pull factors. Finally, the spatial pattern of variation in migration processes is consistent with core-periphery development models and with earlier observations of an urban bias in Third World research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the regional change in the German Democratic Republic. Changes in the geographic distributions of economic activity and regional patterns of socioeconomic in the region; Historic concentration of industry in the South and regional inequalities; Problems facing national planners resulting from the conflict of regional planning goals.