Child poverty must be understood in the multidimensional sense and is thus considered in terms of monetary poverty, hunger, education, child labour and access to health care services. Secondly, the study analyzes several policies that the Cameroonian government could adopt to respond to this crisis in order to protect children. In section 2, a summary of the main channels of transmission of the global financial crisis to developing economies, and particularly Cameroon, is provided. Section 3 lays out the methodological approach of the study, and section 4 shows the structure and evolution of the economy in the reference scenario, the results of the crisis scenario are presented in section 5.