Belarusian Trade-Economic University of Consumer Cooperation

The history of banks' involvement in solving the issues of sustainable development of the society is, on the one hand, short by the standards of economic history, and on the other hand, bright and ambiguous. This is explained by the strategic goal of the banking institution functioning - ensuring a stable turnover of financial resources in the socio-economic system of the country and building up financial capital. It is the latter component that caused the interest of the market and state regulators in the possibility of attracting banks' capital to finance so-called "green projects" aimed at solving local or global environmental problems of mankind. Today, the strategic agenda of more and more banks includes various elements of ESG-methodology of responsible corporate behavior, implemented in the form of corporate social policy (mainly focused on the bank's staff and its clients) and a portfolio of "green investments" - a group of projects that are mainly socially-oriented or infrastructural in nature. The purpose of such responsible investment is both to solve specific socially or environmentally important tasks and to strengthen the market position of the bank-investor itself, which forms a positive image in the eyes of its key stakeholders and improves the rating position of investment attractiveness both domestically and in international rankings compiled by reputable analytical agencies, such as S&P, Moody's Investors, and Fitch Ratings.

The problems of demographic development in the Republic of Belarus are considered. Based on their analysis, it is noted that reproductive processes in the country tend to worsen. And that the country has entered a new round of depopulation. They generate depopulation processes and pose a threat to demographic security. The article analyses the results of the population census of the Republic of Belarus in 2019. The interpretation of the census data on the reproductive attitudes of Belarusian women is given. Objective and subjective factors of depopulation processes are noted. The conclusion is made about the role of the subjective factor in demographic processes and the need for an active demographic policy of the state. It is noted that the social demographic policy in recent years has ceased to be systemic and state, and is subordinated to the necessary, but departmental interests. The article formulates a provision on the implementation of demographic policy aimed at the formation of prestige of family values, focused on stimulating medium- and large-child reproductive attitudes.

Types, models and stages of professional career, as well as stages of formation of an employee as a professional, are considered. Criteria for promotion of personnel building (planning) an administrative career (“managers”) and employees who choose the path of “an expert” are featured. Peculiarities determining prospects for professional and rank growth in small agribusiness are highlighted.Example of professional development chart shows what a person should focus on in order to achieve a set goal. Attention is paid not only to factors of a successful career of personnel, taking into account their personal and business qualities, but also to objective conditions affecting the employee’s career advancement.

The articel is devoted to the study of digital reforms in the agro-industrial complex of Russia and the assessment of opportunities and threats for the sustainable socio-economic development of the country. The article also considers business cases of successful digitalization of agriculture and assesses the economic effects of digital technologies, and forms a scenario for the further development of the agro-industrial complex taking into account global trends in the development of the digital economy.

One of the key environmental problem is the study of protective and adaptive reactions of plants to technogenic conditions. When carrying out a comparative analysis of plants implementation results adaptive mechanisms the quantitative assessment of these processes is great importance. Currently, calculation formulas have been developed to assess the adaptive potential of a particular cultivar, taking into account their yield. In this case, it is necessary to use the average yield of the variety and culture for the entire period of cultivation to quantify the value of the adaptive potential realization. There is a graphical method of determining the value of adaptive potential plants implementation using curves variability phytoindicator features of the studied plants (length, width, area, shape index sheet, the annual growth of trees, the chlorophyll fluorescence induction index etc.), growing under man-made conditions, and the curves of plants these signs variability in background conditions. The value of the adaptive capacity implementation in this case may be defined as the percentage area overlap of the variability phytoindicator characteristic the object in technogenic conditions curve and variability phytoindicator the control test object curve. However, this method provides for the contribution of only the adaptive changes degree and does not take into account the depth of differences in the phytoindicator characteristics the object in technogenic conditions and the control object. To assess changes in the plants parameters under the influence adverse factors environment possible with use the analysis method of growth in ontogenesis lamina dynamics in the contaminated territories. The method involves study the parameters average dynamics (length, width, perimeter and leaf area) of leaves groups (at least five in the group), located on hanging branches on the world four sides, depending on the distance from the road edge and the each group leaves height above the soil surface. Further, statistical modeling reveals multifactorial regularities of the influence of the accounting sheet height above the soil surface, the distance from the road to the accounting leaves individual parameters change. Given the adaptive changes genetic nature developed discrete-systematic approach to the plants adaptive capacity analysis, which allows us to analyze data about the adaptive reactions genetic nature and to obtain new information about the management at different levels of living organisms organization, including the biosphere. Since these methods do not provide for the definition a single quantitative criterion that allows comparative analysis of the several plants phytoindicator parameters dynamics, this was the purpose of this work.

The article contains conceptual analysis of the new world order paradigm as well as one of its key doctrinal basis that is the doctrine of world revolution. Social and political aspects of the crisis of U.S. hegemony are touched upon. The given data of social studies testify the rise of isolationists' approaches among the American society. The alternative to Pax Americana has been suggested.

Photoacoustic transformation of the TE mode of a Bessel light beam (BLB) has been studied for piezoelectric detection in short-period superlattices formed by magnetoactive crystals of bismuth germanate (Bi12GeO20) and bismuth silicate (Bi12SiO20) types. It is shown that the resulting signal amplitude can be controlled using optical schemes of BLB formation with a tunable cone angle. A resonant increase in the signal amplitude has been found in the megahertz range of modulation frequencies and its dependences on the BLB modulation frequency, geometric sizes of the two-layer structure and piezoelectric transducer, radial coordinate of the polarization BLB mode, and dissipative superlattice parameters are analyzed.