Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.
Dubai's Jebel Ali Port (world's largest man-made harbour at commissioning) opened 1979 under Sheikh Rashid's direction; the adjacent Jebel Ali Free Zone formally launched 1985 by Dubai Law offered 100% foreign ownership, zero corporate tax (50-year guarantee), repatriation of capital and profits, and no currency restrictions. Combined with dredging of Dubai Creek and airport expansion, it established Dubai as the region's re-export hub.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.