1. Much of the analysis of the economic impact of AIDS in South Africa to date has been based on comparative reference to the literature on developing countries, notably those in Africa, or to industrial societies. While methodologically useful, this is of generally limited direct applica-bility. Cf. D. Nabarro and C. McConnell, ‘The impact of AIDS on socioeconomic development’, AIDS III (1989), pp. 265–72, and A. Whiteside, ‘AIDS in Southern Africa’, May 1990, position paper for the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
2. M. Byerley, ‘AIDS and small town South Africa’, AIDS Analysis Africa, I, 6 (1990), p. 3.
3. Cf., for example, J. Simon, The Ultimate Resource (Princeton University Press, 1982).
4. For an interesting discussion of one aspect of the economic costs of the massive prospective growth in the number of unemployed in South Africa cf. J.L. Sadie, ‘The avoidable costs of population’, South African Journal of Demography, I, 1 (1987), pp. 20–5.
5. Cf., for example, I. Livingstone, ‘Structural adjustment and long-term interactions between demographic and economic variables in Africa’, School of Development Studies, Discussion Paper No. 201 (University of East Anglia, 1987).