The same applies to fixed assets, intangible assets, other assets and raw materials acquired by the costs and expenses thereof paid for by the joint venture with funds from foreigncurrencyloans.
By providing deficit-laden countries with short-term foreigncurrencyloans, IMF funds would buy time for countries to bring down their inflation rates and reduce their balance-of-payments deficits.
As elsewhere in the region, part of the rush to qualify is to forestall a further drop in the zloty, which would make foreign-currencyloans harder to pay off.