Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
Gazetted ban on import of chemical fertilisers, agrochemicals and pesticides announced 29 April 2021 and effective May 2021, framed as a pivot to 100% organic agriculture. Imposed mid-cropping cycle without substitution capacity in organic inputs. Rice yields fell an estimated 20% in the 2021/22 Maha season; domestic rice self-sufficiency reversed, tea export earnings (largest forex earner) hit, and emergency $200mn compensation package announced Nov 2021. Partial rollback from Oct-Nov 2021; formally reversed in Q1 2022. Widely identified as a proximate trigger of the forex and food-price spiral feeding the Aragalaya protests.
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.