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Focuses on the views of Finance Minister Theodore Dabanga that the economy would go through a financial crises due to the fall of treasury revenue in the Central African Republic. Claim of Dabanga that country relies on taxation and custom duties to keep its economy afloat; Importance of the country to correct discrepancies arising from the wage bill and low revenues in order to avail economic assistance from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and the African Development Bank; Insights on the support given by the European Union on the regime of President Francois Bozize.

The article reports that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved SDR3.467 million, on January 14, in interim assistance under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. It notes that the interim assistance will help the Central African Republic to meet its debt service payments on its existing debt to the Fund in 2008. It mentions that the Executive Board agreed that the Central African Republic qualified for debt relief under the HIPC Initiative on September 28, 2007, and had reached the decision point.