Govender, Krishna Kistan.Dlamini, Neliswa Witness.2025-10-092025-10-0920232023https://hdl.handle.net/10413/23946Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.First and foremost, I am grateful for the multiplied grace of the Lord upon my life and for being with me throughout my studies. I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the following individuals who supported me throughout my studies: To my Supervisor, Prof. Krishana K Govender thank you for your thorough guidance, your prompt response, patience, and for giving me valuable feedback throughout my entire dissertation. It’s been a rocky ride, but we sailed through. To my little brothers, Siyabonga Dlamini, and Daniel Thwala thank you for being there, you kept me going, brought the laughter to break the stress, kept pushing me and helped throughout the entire dissertation. To my son Amile Dlamini, thank you; without your constant support, love, sacrifice, and encouragement, I would never have made it. So much of our precious family time was sacrificed during this time. Mom will make it up to you. I hope you have learned so much during this time that perseverance is the mother of success. To my mother, my sister, my entire family, and very close friends. Thank you for your prayers, your words of encouragement, your understanding of my occasional unavailability, and for all the unconditional support Ngiyabonga. I would also like to thank Trade and Investment for affording me time to finish this study, as well as all companies and my colleagues from EDTEA for participating in this study.enLong-term visionEconomic growthSocio-economic challengesPharmaceutical sectorSustainable environment.Thesis