Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Security of private property rights — formal recognition, expropriation risk, titling systems.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), launched in 2011 on the Blue Nile under the EPRDF, is a state-led mega-hydropower project financed largely through domestic bonds and forced public contributions rather than external loans. Construction was directed by the Ethiopian Electric Power agency and a contractor consortium, intended to roughly double national generation capacity, support energy export revenues, and serve as the flagship of the EPRDF's developmental-state industrial agenda.
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.