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Success breeds success
There are plenty of reasons to fear the worst. Poor farming and environmental degradation could lead to hunger, poverty and strife. Instability, corruption and family breakdown could break the cycle of industrialisation and growing productivity.
Hence the need to get African policy right: a green revolution to keep rural hunger and poverty at bay peace and contraception to keep the demographic transition on track education and better governance to create a workforce able to exploit the chances on offer and services to help people in slums like Sodom and Gomorrah join the formal economy.
Such desires are hardly new-indeed each stands on its own merits. What is new is the sense of urgency. The demographic dividend comes around only once. Eventually the bulge of energetic, working-age people becomes a bulge of dependent, elderly ones. The transition will pass in a couple of generationsthe blink of a demographic eye. Africa must not fumble its best chance at prosperity.

A. 어휘
breed-bred-bred 增殖(증식)하다. degradation 타락, 강등.
strife 충돌, 분쟁, 불화. instability 불안정. corruption 부패.
breakdown 崩壞(붕괴). industrialisation 산업화. productivity 생산성.
hence 따라서, 이 때문에. bay 궁지, 灣(만). keep at bay 沮止(저지)하다.
contraception 피임. demographic 인구의. transition 변천.
keep on track 궤도에 올리다. governance 통치, 관리. exploit 이용하다.
the chances on offer 주어진 기회. stand on ...에 기초하다.
merit 장점, 좋은 점. urgency 긴급한 것.
dividend 이익 배당, 보너스, 덤으로 주는 것. eventually 결국, 최후에는.
dependent 의존하고 있는. bulge 불룩한 부분, 돌출부.
blink 눈을 깜짝임, 閃光(섬광). fumble 서투르게 만지작거리다, 말을 더듬다.

B. 구문
- peace and contraception to keep the demographic transition on track.
[인구의 변화를 궤도에 올릴 평화와 피임실시]
- Eventually the bulge of energetic, working-age. . . dependent, elderly ones.
[(인구삼각형에서) 불룩한 부분(비율이 가장 높은 부분)을 차지하고 있는 활력이 있고 일하는 사람들이 결국 의존적인 노인들의 불룩한 부분이 될 것이다.]