The impact of pharmaceutical tendering on prices and market concentration in South Africa over a 14-year period

Olivier J. Wouters, Dale M. Sandberg, Anban Pillay and Panos G. Kanavos

Social Science & Medicine, 2019, vol. 220, issue C, 362-370

Abstract: We investigated the South African tendering system for medicines to (a) evaluate its impact on prices and market concentration over a 14-year period and (b) analyze the accuracy of government forecasts of drug demand.

Keywords: South Africa; Generic medicines; Generic drugs; Prices; Competition; Tendering; Procurement; Pharmaceutical policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.029

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