The Covid-19 pandemic has created the opportunity for corruption to flourish in healthcare sectors around the world. Challenges include misuse and mismanagement of resources and corruption, which require scrutiny and attention. This article deals with such corruption during the pandemic, involving public procurement of goods and services for the treatment of diseases, falsification of public contracts and kickbacks, embezzlement of healthcare funds, opacity in governance, misuse of power, nepotism and favouritism in the management, petty corruption in the level of service, fraud and theft or embezzlement of medicines and medical devices.

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected not only health systems worldwide, but also global civil society, it has posed a global threat to humanity with significant implications and indicated weak points of postmodern civil society such as the lack of global solidarity and global cooperation, the lack of global health equity, the increase in poverty, social insecurity and deep inequality, the lack of support for the liberal international order, the lack of coordination mechanism for responding to the pandemic. Three main crises of postmodern society are identified and analysed: relations of cooperation between nations and states, protests in different countries, the inadequacy of scientific and technological achievements of civilization. The analysis of these crises led to the conclusion that, along with the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic for humanity, it should be seen as a crucial moment for human civilization that identified gaps and directions for the development of global civil society. The transformation of society today must take place in terms of rethinking the consequences and results of globalization, and taking into account the processes of socio-political and socio-cultural transformation. Today, humanity needs to transform global society by reconsidering the role of WHO as a leading intergovernmental organization in the global health system, strengthening the role of global governance, creating a new paradigm of global health, developing global cooperation, solidarity and coordination towards global health equity.

Nowadays environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources have become priorities of the state-building strategy in almost all developed countries of the world.  Effective financing of these activities is required for the development and adoption of national targeted, local programs for environmental protection, for the sustainable development of society, for the rational use and reproduction of natural resources.  The article is devoted to the research of the current tendencies of the use of fiscal policy measures in the implementation of the national environmental policy in the sphere of atmospheric air protection in Ukraine.  The ways of improvement of environmental taxation and development of the main ways of development and expansion of the system of ecological taxation and ecological governance in Ukraine were discovered. Keywords: atmospheric air, environmental air safety, fiscal policy, environmental taxation, implementation of the national environmental policy,

Peculiarities of international trade in medicinal products and equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic are considered. The purpose of the article is theoretical and methodological substantiation of the role of the WTO agreements within international trade in medicinal products and equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, development of important priorities of international trade policy in this area. The methodological basis of the article is a set of general and special research methods. In particular, the shortcomings of international trade in medicinal products and equipment in 2020 were identified by using the logical and semantic method. The export of medical equipment and devices in 2020 is analyzed and the main problems that exist in this area are outlined. The WTO agreements regulating international trade in medicinal products and equipment are analyzed. It is stated that the WTO is an effective regulator of international trade and should take all measures to further provision of stable functioning of the system of international trade relations, liberalization of international trade, ensuring transparency of trade procedures and the abolition of trade restrictions. It is concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic stressed the strengthening of cooperation and efforts to reduce barriers to international trade. Global integration of all activities and international cooperation are important to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the health and economic. It is emphasized that aspects of the settlement of trade disputes related to the export of medical equipment and devices during the COVID-19 pandemic can be considered as a perspective area of further research.

Abstract. The purpose of this research is to study the main problems that prevent Ukraine from integrating into the global economy and to determine correct focuses of the foreign economic policy of Ukraine against the background of strengthening of globalization tendencies throughout the world. The bases of this research are bases of business development of the foreign economic policy of Ukraine and improvement of Ukrainian economy against the background of international integration. At the heart of the research methodology is a dialectical method of scientific knowledge and, besides, special methods of research based on modern scientific bases of economic, management and related to them knowledge: economic and statistic method -for the assessment of the modern state of foreign trade and investment activity of Ukraine; method of analysis and synthesis -for the determination of tendencies of development of integration processed in Ukraine; comparative analysis -for comparison of information concerning development of specific indicators of foreign economic activities in Ukraine. Results. As a result of research, the main blocks of problems, which impede the integration of Ukraine into the global economy, and requirements for their complex solution are determined. Besides, interdependence and interdetermination of problems, which impede the integration of Ukraine into the global economy, and requirements for their complex solution are explained. Political and legal, economic, sociocultural, and infrastructural preconditions that are necessary for effective integration of Ukraine into the global economy are highlighted. Practical implications. Analysis of the existing problems related to the actual economy, investments, innovation processes gives the possibility to determine the vector of development of Ukraine's economy taking to account recommendations concerning its improvement for the purposes of integration into global economy. Value/Originality. Conducted research has provided the possibility to confirm the obtained results: integration of Ukraine into the global economy is impossible without the development of the main strategic directions of integration, without carrying out reforms that would be helpful in improving Ukraine's reputation on the international stage. It is confirmed that without correct, scientifically well-grounded, carefully well-reasoned and gradually implemented policy in Ukraine, any national strategy of economic and social development that makes provision for integration of our country into global economy cannot be successfully realized.