They have higher levels of debt. Nations with developing economies cannot obtain the kind of seemingly bottomless financing that more developed nations can.
They are highly industrialized.
They have more women working, particularly in high-ranking executive positions.
They use a disproportionate amount of the world's resources, such as oil.
Their birth and death rates are stable.
honduras
Hurricane Mitch devastates Honduras.
Football War with El Salvador; 4,000 die in 100-hour conflict.
President Ramone Morales is deposed in coup. Colonel Osvaldo Lopez Arellano heads first of string of military regimes in power until 1981.
First civilian government in over a century elected but military remains influential.
