The data
The competition requires the participants to identify or collect relevant data, besides the data provided by organizers. This includes loans information, Kiva global multidimensional poverty index (MPI) by region and location, loan theme and loan themes by region. The loans information include an unique id, loan theme id, loan theme type, local financial organization partner id, funded amount (how much Kiva provided to the local partner), loan amount (how much the local partner disbursed to the borrower), the activity of the borrower, sector, use of the loan, country code, country name, region, currency, posted time, disbursed time, funded time, duration in time for which the loan was disbursed, the total number of lenders that contributed to a loan, gender of borrowers, and repayment interval. Kiva MPI by region and location include region or country name, ISO-3 code for the country, region, world region, MPI value and the geolocation (latitude and longitude) of the current...
