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Informal Economy: Press Coverage

By Aaron Barbour

New Start Magazine CoverWe were delighted that New Start Magazine recently reported on our work researching the infomal economy

On 25th April, I wrote an article which featured as New Start’s cover story ‘Cash-in-hand: Why embracing the informal economy could be a nice little earner’, which focused on understanding the UK’s local and regional informal economies.
 
In that same edition our recent report on the impact of the Olympics ‘Fool’s Gold’, co-written with nef (new economics foundation), was featured. 

On 11th April, Susan Downer, New Start’s Assistant Editor, wrote an analysis piece about the recent National Audit Office  report into ‘HMRC and the hidden economy’  and our latest report on the ‘Self-employed and micro-entrepreneurs: informal trading and the journeys towards formalisation’.

Thanks to New Start for allowing us to reproduce the pieces here – we’d be interested to hear your comments.

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