De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Unilateral and regional trade liberalisation undertaken under Menem's first term: average tariffs fell from roughly 26% in 1989 to about 10% by mid-1990s, non-tariff barriers were dismantled, and Argentina co-founded MERCOSUR via the 1991 Treaty of Asunción with Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Combined with Convertibility's nominal anchor, the opening drove import competition, IT and capital-goods inflows, and tradeable-sector restructuring.
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.