Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
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.
Law 10.836/2004 created the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer programme under the Lula government, consolidating prior Cardoso-era transfers (Bolsa Escola, Auxilio Gas, Cartao Alimentacao) into a unified means-tested grant paid to low-income families conditional on school attendance and child vaccination. Administered by the Ministry of Social Development through the Caixa Economica Federal, the programme expanded to cover roughly a quarter of Brazilian households and became a flagship of the PT social policy framework.
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.