moreover they find that people with more than one type of poverty have socioeconomic features that are distinct from people who are not poor or are poor in only one measure they conclude that using a combination of poverty measures is more secure in terms of finding the real poor than the use of single measures nolan and whelan when analysing the european unions poverty reduction measure the eu poverty target suggest that combining relative income poverty and material deprivation and focusing on the group where they overlap is worth consideration because such a measure can serve as a way of distinguishing a subset of the population deserving priority in framing antipoverty policy also roches study on multidimensional child poverty in bangladesh shows that results based on wealth measures are considerably different to those obtained with multidimensional poverty measures