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.
Malawi's Public Finance Management Act, 2022 repealed the 2003 framework and restated national rules for budget preparation, Treasury authority, cash and debt management, commitment controls, reporting, and public-body financial accountability. The Act established the Treasury architecture, the Treasury Single Account system, debt-management provisions, and reporting duties that later IMF-supported programmes treated as part of the fiscal-governance reform base.
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.