This paper compares and analyses the spread, depth and severity of urban poverty and itâ€™s relativernSensitivity to changes in growth and inequality across individual urban units and over time. The UrbanrnSocio-Economic Survey Data conducted by the Department of Economics of AAU and Department ofrnEconomics of Goteberg University of Sweden across seven urban centers in four rounds ( 1994, 1995,rn1997 and 2000) have been used.rnrnRecent techinigues for poverty analysis have been applied. The three decomposable poverty measuresrnalong with Gini indices have been estimated for individual urban centers over four study periods.rnDecomposition techniques of poverty, intended to examine different aspects of it, have extensively beenrnapplied. Decomposition of aggregate urban poverty into population weighted share of the sub-groups,rnallowed to investigate the relative contribution of each urban centre to the aggregate poverty. Thernelasticity of aggregate poverty to changes in growth or redistribution in 1 th urban centre and analysis ofrntargeting have been employed to priorities urban centers for efficient al location of scare resources andrnhence maximum reduction in aggregate poverty. Decomposition of poverty at a given point in time intorngrowth and distribution components has also been used to explore the relative sensitivity of poverty torngrowth and inequality. The observed change in poverty between two periods has also been decomposedrninto growth, redistribution and residual effects to examine the relative importance of growth orrnrnRedistribution as a policy alternative to address the issue of poverty. Using poverty measures asrnDependent variables against growth and inequality as explanatory variables, the regression analysis ofrnPanel data have well been discussed to determine the relative elasticity of poverty with respect to growthrnand inequality.