Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Security of private property rights — formal recognition, expropriation risk, titling systems.
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Portugal's first IMF Stand-By Arrangement of June 1977 (around SDR 50 million) and the subsequent larger arrangement of June 1978 (about SDR 57 million) supported a balance-of-payments stabilisation under the Soares and Mota Pinto governments. Conditionality required escudo devaluation, ceilings on credit growth, public-sector wage moderation, fuel-price increases, and a tighter import-deposit regime. The intended effect was to halt the post-1974 external crisis, rebuild reserves, and impose a market-oriented adjustment on the heterodox economic settlement of the revolutionary period.
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.