This report presents findings from research that has sought to refine the understanding and measurement of poverty by engaging with people directly experiencing poverty, practitioners and academics. The longer-term goal is that the research should contribute to more sensitive policy design at national and international level and thereby to the eradication of poverty. It is widely recognised that poverty is multidimensional. However, hitherto these dimensions have not been well specified, certain dimensions have gone unrecognised, and the ways in which the dimensions interact to shape the experience of poverty has not been properly understood.