Abstract :
Continuous monitoring ofspatial variationsin urban poverty is a complex multidimensional
phenomenon. In urban areas of South Asian countries, variousfactors contribute to promote
urban poverty e.g.,rapid and unmanaged urbanization, highmigration and inflation rates and
fluctuationsin land values.The poor community should be focused by policy makersto solve
poverty related issues. This research was conducted in a metropolitan city Lahore in Punjab
province of Pakistan which is confronting with urban poverty and need to construct a policy
for poverty alleviation. Alkire-Foster approach was used to compute urban poverty by
selecting poverty cut off point k=2/5 forthisstudy.It demonstratesthat 70.8% of households
were poor whereas 29.8% households were living out of poverty with positive potentials.The
results can be taken as a reference point to alleviate poverty in other regions of country.
Keyword :
Multidimensional poverty; Metropolitan; Alkire & Foster approach; poverty cut off point and poverty indices.