General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Direction of monetary-base expansion decisions relative to trend. Separate from fiscal.transfer_expansion even when correlated.
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Betancur's Junguito-led 1984-85 adjustment cut public-sector deficit from 7.5% to 2.5% of GDP via selective tax increases, spending restraint, and maxi-devaluation, without an IMF stand-by programme. Instead a bilateral "enhanced surveillance" framework with IMF accepted annual monitoring short of formal LoI. Preserved Colombian access to voluntary commercial lending when Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina were in debt restructuring. Basis of the "Colombian Exception" literature.
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.