Note: The changes are expressed with respect to the no crisis scenario. Following implementation of this policy, the rates of monetary poverty are lower than in the reference scenario: 48.52%, 49.62%, 49.77% and 49.80%, respectively for the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, corresponding respectively to 3.38%, 0.86%, 0.56% and 0.62% reductions in the number of children experiencing monetary poverty across the country. It eliminates the growth in poverty in 2008 and reduces this poverty growth by about a quarter in 2009, 2010 and 2011.