Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Organic law expanding asset forfeiture (extinción de dominio), beneficial-ownership disclosure, and financial-intelligence unit powers to disrupt illicit finance tied to drug-trafficking groups. Passed by the newly-elected Assembly as part of the Noboa security agenda in the weeks following inauguration.
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.