How Small Businesses Can Fight Corruption

Rebecca Regan-Sachs of Next Billion interviewing Alex Shkolnikov of CIPE:

NextBillion: You have mentioned that CIPE works frequently with business associations to find ways to fight corruption. However, in many developing countries, a large segment of the business sector is informal. If these "shadow economy" enterprises don't have official association representation, how can they defend themselves against corruption?
Alex Shkolnikov: We've actually seen in a number of countries that informal sector associations emerge spontaneously to defend the rights of small business. They act as a self-defense mechanism. So if inspectors come in, you have an association that basically provides protection. They also provide market information, of goods and prices and stuff like that, but they really emerged as kind of a self-defense mechanism.