Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Government export-compensation scheme paid 35% bonus on hard-currency gold and diamond exports to Goldenberg International (owned by Kamlesh Pattni in alliance with VP Saitoti and security chiefs). Kenya produced negligible gold and no diamonds. Fraudulent claims cost an estimated $600m-$1bn (10%+ of GDP in the period). Depleted Central Bank reserves and produced a sharp currency crisis. Emblematic of 1990s Kenyan governance failure.
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.