Tashabos - Entrepreneurship Education in Afghanistan

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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• conflict
• reform
• democracy
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• students