“…There are several single-country studies, lending credence to the approach used in the current research of a single-country study. These include India (Amaladoss et al, 2011;Bird et al, 2016;Iqbal and Kakakhel, 2016;Mishra and Banerjee, 2019;Subramaniam et al, 2017), developed countries (Battaglia and Frey, 2014;Parsa et al, 2007;Paulet and Relano, 2012), and in developing countries (Darus et al, 2014;Ehie, 2016;ElGammal et al, 2018;Nkiko, 2013). Azim and Azam (2013), Carlat (2013), Mehta and Chandani (2015), Iqbal and Kakakhel (2016) and Cook et al (2018) are among a very few studies focusing specifically on the pharmaceutical sector.…”