General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
7th National Finance Commission Award signed 30 December 2009 at Gwadar, effective FY2010-11 through FY2014-15 (extended several times in absence of an 8th Award). Raised provincial share of the divisible federal resource pool from 47.5% to 57.5% (first year) moving toward 58% by FY2014-15. Introduced multi-criteria horizontal distribution formula replacing pure population: population (82%), poverty/backwardness (10.3%), revenue generation/collection (5%), inverse population density (2.7%). Recognised Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1% war-on-terror cost share. Politically historic as consensus award reached after 12-year NFC deadlock. Combined with 18th Amendment to produce a substantial federal-to-provincial fiscal shift that structurally widened federal primary-deficit pressure.
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.