With respect to the no crisis scenario, this amounts to a reduction of 4.64 percentage points in 2008, 4.05 in 2009, 3.84 in 2010, and 3.70 in 2011; the total decline of the number of children in caloric poverty at the national level is 12.95% in 2008, 11.37% in 2009, 10.85% in 2010, and 10.57% in 2011. The VAT food subsidy appears to be the most ineffective of these two policies vis-a-vis the goal of reducing caloric poverty. The likely reasons for the inefficiency of the two policy responses on the reduction in monetary poverty, as mentioned above, remain valid to explain the inefficiency of these policies in reducing caloric poverty. This policy is found to be ineffective at completely eliminating the increase in child caloric poverty generated by the crisis in Yaounde and Douala.