The ways in which the global financial and economic crisis of the 2000s resembles the crises in developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s include all of the following EXCEPT

A. Contagion made the crisis worse
B. Borrowers relied on short-term funding
C. Fixed exchange rates encouraged financial activity exposed to exchange-rate risk
D. Overlending and overborrowing played a key role

Answer: C

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