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.
Sixth Central Pay Commission report submitted March 2008, implemented effective 1 January 2006 (retrospective). Delivered ~40% salary increase for ~4.5 million central-government employees and ~3.5 million pensioners. Pay bands and grade-pay structure replaced prior pay scales. Arrears of ~Rs 17,800 crore disbursed across fiscal years 2008-09 and 2009-10. State governments followed with their own pay-commission pass-through rounds, amplifying overall fiscal impact. Contributed to the demand impulse carrying India through the 2008-09 global crisis period; widely cited contributing factor to subsequent CPI pressure.
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.