with the same overall budget which we assume to be financed by foreign aid and to be equal to per cent of gdp food subsidies have on average smaller effects as they do not specifically target the poor or children broadly the latter policy has a significant impact in burkina faso only in terms of reducing the monetary poverty effect by percentage points and to a larger extent in ghana where it reduces child monetary poverty by up to more points and hunger rates by more than point this policy is also very effective in reducing hunger among children in burkina faso and particularly cameroon