Nine studies emerging from a July 1995 conference in Leiden explore various aspects of the widely recognized unevenness at both the regional and national levels. Among them are the history and nature of the unevenness, social forces between equity and growth, some comparative estimates of poverty, gender and export- oriented development in the Philippines, ethnicity and development in Malaysia, and foreign development and the spatial pattern of growth in Vietnam. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.