General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
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.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
Direction of monetary-base expansion decisions relative to trend. Separate from fiscal.transfer_expansion even when correlated.
International rescue package agreed 28 October 2008 and approved by the IMF Board 6 November 2008 — the first IMF stand-by arrangement in an EU member state after the euro-area sovereign-debt stress began. Combined €20bn envelope: IMF Stand-By Arrangement of €12.5bn (SDR 10.5bn, exceptional access ~1,015% of quota), EU balance-of- payments facility €6.5bn, and World Bank €1bn. Triggered by Hungary's exposure to FX-denominated household and corporate debt (~60% of household mortgages in Swiss franc), collapsing forint, and funding difficulties at major banks. Conditionality included deficit reduction to 3.8% of GDP in 2009, freeze of the 13th-month pension and public- sector wage, public-sector wage-bill cuts, VAT increase from 20% to 25% (from 1 July 2009), PIT rate cuts paired with base broadening, corporate tax cut from 20% to 19%, and labour-market measures. Bajnai government delivered the adjustment April 2009–May 2010; deficit closed to 4.6% of GDP in 2009 and 4.5% in 2010. Fidesz government in 2010 exited the arrangement before full disbursement, repaying early and shifting onto heterodox financing (bank levy, pension-fund nationalisation).
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.