In 2005, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) recognized the need for students to learn entrepreneurial and business skills along with their core studies. CIPE developed a program known as Tashabos (the Dari and Pashto word for "entrepreneur") to teach high school students the basics of economics and finance. Tashabos tells the story of a married couple that capitalize on the weaving and design skills of the wife to establish a knitwear business that -- by the course's completion -- expands into a full-scale manufacturing enterprise. Throughout the story, concepts such as capital, investment, and lending are identified and explained, providing the student with a basic yet sufficient understanding of entrepreneurship in a market economy.
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