De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
New Central Bank of Sri Lanka Act certified 14 September 2023, replacing the Monetary Law Act of 1949. Codifies operational independence of the CBSL, establishes price stability as the primary objective with flexible inflation targeting, prohibits direct monetary financing of the government (Art. 85), sets a Governing Board and Monetary Policy Board separation, and strengthens governance / dismissal protections for the Governor. An IMF EFF structural benchmark.
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.