The aim of the paper is to analyze the current state of and prospects for the development of corporate governance in Belarus to ensure more effective and wide-scale implementation of the core principles of corporate governance in the state-controlled and the private sectors.

In this brief the authors re-examine the developments of gender gaps in the labour market and social norms related to labour market activity.

The paper analyzes municipal waste collection and treatment systems in Sweden and Finland.

The paper analyzes new legislative initiatives in the EU and EAEU countries, aimed at solving the problems of packaging waste within the framework of building a circular economy.

The paper reveals the peculiarities of perception of the circular economy concept by top management representatives of enterprises with traditional (linear) and circular business model.

Only the information and communication technology sector continued to generate stable investment demand in 2019. It was effective in attracting investment not only because of the preferences granted to the industry, but also thanks to businesses’ determined efforts to raise investment funds as a well-proven tool for expansion in the market. However, in general, Belarus still lags behind other countries in terms of the investment attractiveness.