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Introduction. The urgent task of modern corporate governance is to use innovative tools to develop the knowledge economy, where the primary source of wealth is human capital. A critical factor in the development of human capital in the new pandemic environment is to ensure the efficiency of staff to achieve commercial goals under any conditions of a sharp change in quarantine restrictions. The search for new tools for human capital development in insurance companies is an urgent and objective need. It will strengthen the competitive advantages of insurance companies in the face of such global challenges and threats as a pandemic. Aim and tasks. The article aims to determine the role and importance of tools for human capital development, to find new ways to improve them, taking into account the trends of pandemic waves. The following main tasks are 1) to explore the essence of existing tools for human capital development;2) to establish the relationship between the use of appropriate tools for human capital development in the context of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic;3) propose approaches to the use of human capital development tools to qualitatively and quantitatively increase the competitiveness of insurance companies. Results. The article examines the essence of existing tools for human capital development at the macro and micro levels. The essence of outsourcing, outstaffing, personnel leasing, crowdsourcing, coworking, freelancing is analyzed. The relationship between the use of appropriate tools for human capital development in the context of the spread of new waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effectiveness of insurance companies is established. Approaches to using human capital development tools to qualitatively and quantitatively increase insurance companies' competitiveness are proposed. Conclusions. The paper defines the role and importance of such tools for human capital development as outsourcing, outstaffing, staff leasing, crowdsourcing, coworking, freelancing. Ways to improve them, taking into account the trends of pandemic waves, are proposed. A direct relationship between applying the tools of human capital development in the new waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effectiveness of insurance companies is established. It is proposed to use the analyzed tools to qualitatively and quantitatively increase the competitiveness of insurance companies.
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This paper examines the state of drug use and sales during a lockdown caused by a pandemic COVID-19. The focus group is juveniles in the United States, as there has been a sharp change in drug mortality for this group in the United States during quarantine. The change in the death rate from drugs among minors has been identified. The impact of drug prohibition and legalization in the US economy on the level of drug use has been studied. Data on drug use and distribution by juveniles were analyzed using descriptive statistics, data visualization, smoothing (Kendall, Pollard, median, exponential), data correlation, and cluster analysis. The results show that for minors aged 12-16, quarantine conditions have benefited by reducing the trend of drug use, not only after quarantine but also in later life, and confirm the hypothesis of a positive effect of lockdown on drug use reduction among minors in the United States. Recommendations are proposed to increase the attention of the state and its implementation of additional control measures, including conducting political and educational measures among adolescents to prevent drug use and reduce the popularity of drug use for each succeeding generation. It will positively benefit young people as drug prevention, and it will help reduce drug mortality in the United States. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors.