Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
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.
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
In May 2022 the Raisi government eliminated the preferential 42,000- rial/USD FX subsidy on imported wheat, cooking oil, medicines and other staples, replacing it with NIMA-market-rate imports and compensatory cash transfers. Industrial bakery flour prices rose ~500%, retail bread ~300-400%. A bread smart-card ("noon-kart") system rolled out from mid-2022 provided subsidised-price quotas per household, with above-quota purchases at market prices. Triggered short-lived protests in Khuzestan and other provinces May 2022. Headline inflation spiked to ~50% YoY peak 2022-2023.
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.