Direction of monetary-base expansion decisions relative to trend. Separate from fiscal.transfer_expansion even when correlated.
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.
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.
The Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal (Lei Complementar 101/2000), enacted under the Cardoso government, imposed binding limits on personnel spending, public debt, and credit operations across federal, state, and municipal levels, and required transparent fiscal targets in each annual budget law (LDO). It cemented the post-Real Plan macro-stabilisation framework alongside inflation targeting and the floating exchange rate, and created enforcement penalties including suspension of voluntary federal transfers to non-compliant subnational governments.
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.