The main goal of the article is to formulate an approach to appraisal of managerial staff activity from the standpoint of manager’s working time as scarce resource and extent of efficiency of its utilisation, and the issue of optimal allocation of managerial load in the control system.

We study the dynamics of poverty and health in a model of endogenous growth and rational health behavior. Population health depends on the prevalence of infectious diseases that can be avoided through costly prevention. The incentive to do so comes from the negative effects of ill health on the...