The recently endorsed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda unanimously agrees
on the need to focus on inclusive development, the importance of eradicating extreme poverty and
managing often complex human well-being impacts of rapid urban growth. Sustainable and inclusive
urbanisation will accelerate progress towards the SDGs and contribute to eradicating extreme poverty.
In tropical delta regions, such as the Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna delta region, urban growth
and resulting intra-urban inequalities are accelerated by the impact of environmental and climate
change. In this context, the present study uses the 2010 Household Income and Expenditure Survey
to analyse the extent of wealth-based inequalities in human well-being in the urban delta region and
the determinants of selected welfare measures. The results suggest that the extent of intra-urban
inequalities is greatest in educational attainment and access to postnatal healthcare and relatively
low in the occurrence of gastric disease. The paper concludes by providing policy recommendations
to reduce increasing wealth inequalities in urban areas, thus contributing to sustainable development
of the region.