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.
Decreto 3.088 of 21 June 1999 established inflation-targeting regime. Initial targets: 8% (1999), 6% (2000), 4% (2001). Copom (Comitê de Política Monetária) operationalises Selic rate policy. Transparency via quarterly Inflation Reports. Framework survived regime changes 2002→2003 (Lula) and beyond.
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.