we observe a profound gap between the two types of poverty in several regions notably in the cities of yaounde and douala where the caloric poverty rate among children is respectively and while the corresponding levels of monetary poverty are just and cameroon s two most northerly regions the north and far north regions are far and away the regions which experience the greatest levels of caloric poverty nearly in children living in these two regions are in a state of caloric poverty the total of the first group is equal to of the second