• Who are the parties in architecture, engineering, and construction?
• How do you market architectural services (get the project)?
• What are the basic project delivery methods?
• What are the forms of owner/architect and owner/contractor agreements and what services do they cover?
• How should you charge for your services?
• How do you set up an office?
• What insurance, legal, and accounting issues must you consider?
• What is project management and who should do it?
• What are zoning and building codes about?

The international community's commitment to halve global poverty by 2015 has been enshrined in the first Millennium Development Goal. How global poverty is measured is a critical element in assessing progress towards this goal, and different researchers have presented widely-varying estimates. The chapters in this volume address a range of problems in the measurement and estimation of global poverty, from a variety of viewpoints. Topics covered include the controversies surrounding the definition of a global poverty line; the use of purchasing power parity exchange rates to map the poverty...