if the evolution of the economy continued according to the reference scenario without any crisis this rate would have been expected to ring in at in in and and in this is the result of regions where the caloric poverty rate is above the national average but the monetary poverty rate is under the national average as is the case in the adamaoua east and north west regions this last region has a relatively low rate of caloric poverty even though it is among the five hardest hit regions in terms of monetary poverty among children with a monetary poverty rate of conversely the south region has a caloric poverty rate above the national average as opposed to the case for monetary poverty in that region