General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.
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.
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Correa's Comisión para la Auditoría Integral del Crédito Público (CAIC) reviewed sovereign debt contracted since 1976 and declared the 2012 and 2030 Global Bonds "illegitimate." In December 2008 Ecuador voluntarily defaulted on the 2012 issue and later repurchased the bonds at roughly 35 cents on the dollar through a 2009 Dutch-auction tender. The episode preserved fiscal space for social spending but locked Ecuador out of bond markets for nearly six years.
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.