changes in consumer prices and the reduction in income from selfemployment in the nonagriculture sector are the major contributors in the increase of child poverty as for the consumer prices component nonfood items not shown are the main channel through which children are affected by the crisis the fall in wages affect child poverty relatively more in cameroon representing roughly a sixth of total child monetary poverty increase it is noteworthy that changes in the informal wage sector affected children relatively more than the formal sector with the exception of cameroon for