Bate, Roger; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Mathur, Aparna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and median-income countries and tested them for visual appearance, disintegration, and analyzed their ingredients by chromatography and spectrometry. Fifteen percent of...