General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
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.
IMF Extended Fund Facility of $6.64bn over 36 months, approved by the IMF Executive Board on 4 September 2013 at the start of the Nawaz Sharif PML-N third term. Programme pulled FX reserves from under two weeks of import cover to roughly five months, pushed fiscal deficit from 8.2% to 4.6% of GDP over the programme horizon, and anchored disinflation from ~8% to ~4%. Revenue measures were led by GST rate widening and administrative withholding expansion rather than direct-tax base broadening. Programme concluded in September 2016 after eleven successful reviews.
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.