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Policies·pry_pension_superintendency_law_7235_2023

Paraguay Pension Superintendency Law 7235 2023

PRY·2023 – present·Partido Colorado / Honor Colorado-aligned governmentcandidate
movesfinancial deregulation↑rule of law↑

What the policy did

Law 7235 created a Superintendencia de Jubilaciones y Pensiones to supervise Paraguay's fragmented retirement and pension funds. The statute assigned the new authority powers over information reporting, risk monitoring, governance standards, inspections, and sanctions, while leaving the underlying pension benefit regimes and separate funds in place.

Policy-content fingerprint — what this policy moved, on which axes

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.

intended
↑
financial deregulation
regulatory.financial_deregulation
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
increased · moderate
tighter financial regulation
The law tightened financial-sector oversight of pension funds through a dedicated supervisor.
↑
rule of law
institutional.rule_of_law
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
increased · weak
stronger rule of law
Common reporting, inspection, and sanction channels increased formal accountability across funds.

Enacted by

Empirical evidence — linked hypotheses

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?".

El Salvador's FDI inflow, real-GDP growth, tourism arrivals, and business-formation rate accelerated under the Bukele era (2019-2024) relative to a Central American peer-country donor pool (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic).
bukele_fdi_gdp_investment_climate_2019_2024inferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_law
PARTIAL — mean_gap=-0.697, |gap|/pre_sd=1.2, p_perm=1 (gap below 0.5×pre_sd or placebo p≥0.10)
partial
Across a pre-registered panel of OECD and major emerging-market economies from 1996 to 2023, stronger rule-of-law institutions predict deeper private credit intermediation after country and year fixed effects and basic macro controls.
market_order_rule_of_law_private_credit_depth_panelinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_lawregulatory.financial_deregulation
PARTIAL — coef=+4.153, p=0.513 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive
partial
Following El Salvador's perceived success with the régimen de excepción (March 2022 onward) and the homicide-rate collapse, multiple Latin American jurisdictions enacted Bukele-style emergency measures: Honduras (Estado de Excepción in select municipalities, December 2022), Ecuador (Estado de Excepción + designation of gangs as terrorist organisations, January 2024), Peru (Estado de Emergencia in Lima/Callao, 2023-).
latam_bukele_imitation_effect_homicide_security_stateinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_lawregulatory.financial_deregulation
PARTIAL — ATT=+0.03571, p=0.598, N=99, treated_countries=1 (above α=0.10)
partial
Across countries 1990-2020, higher capital-account openness (proxied by EFW area-4 freedom-to-trade-internationally sub- components covering capital controls, plus IMF AREAER-derived binary capital-control intensity where available) predicts higher subsequent 10-year real per-capita GDP growth, conditional on initial income, rule-of-law level, trade openness, and financial- development depth.
liberal_capital_account_openness_growth_premium_panelinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_lawregulatory.financial_deregulation
PARTIAL — coef=+1.115e-17, p=0.0255; effect magnitude effectively zero
partial
Major episodes of financial deregulation — the 1999 US Gramm-Leach- Bliley repeal of Glass-Steagall, the 1986 UK Financial Services Act ("Big Bang"), Chile's 1974-1981 banking liberalisation, Sweden's late-1980s credit-market liberalisation, and Japan's 1996-2001 Big Bang — are followed within 10 years by higher-than-baseline incidence of banking crises, measured by the Laeven-Valencia Systemic Banking Crisis Database, and by elevated credit-to-GDP gaps per BIS.
financial_deregulation_crisis_vulnerabilityinferred
viaregulatory.financial_deregulation
SUPPORTED — sign matches claim +, ATT=+0.04145, p=3.34e-07, N=302, treated_countries=8
supported
Across a pre-registered panel of OECD and major emerging-market economies from 1996 to 2023, stronger rule-of-law institutions predict faster real GDP per capita growth after country and year fixed effects and basic macro controls.
market_order_rule_of_law_gdp_pc_growth_panelinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_law
PARTIAL — coef=-0.08348, p=0.913 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive
partial
Across a pre-registered panel of OECD and major emerging-market economies from 1996 to 2023, stronger rule-of-law institutions predict higher high-technology export intensity after country and year fixed effects and basic macro controls.
market_order_rule_of_law_high_tech_exports_panelinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_law
PARTIAL — coef=+0.621, p=0.746 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive
partial
Across a pre-registered panel of OECD and major emerging-market economies from 1996 to 2023, stronger rule-of-law institutions predict higher private and total investment shares after country and year fixed effects and basic macro controls.
market_order_rule_of_law_investment_share_panelinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_law
PARTIAL — coef=-0.3477, p=0.814 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive
partial

Similar historical policies

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.

India SEBI Act — statutory securities regulator 1992
IND·1992
match
1.4
financial deregulationrule of law
South Korea IMF Programme + structural reforms 1997-1998
KOR·1997
match
1.4
financial deregulationrule of law
Thailand Securities and Exchange Act 1992
THA·1992
match
1.4
financial deregulationrule of law
South Korea real-name financial transaction system 1993
KOR·1993
match
1.3
rule of lawfinancial deregulation
Lebanon deposit-restitution and bank-loss allocation framework (2025)
LBN·2025
match
1.3
financial deregulationrule of law
Lebanon banking-secrecy amendments 2025
LBN·2025
match
1.3
financial deregulationrule of law
Mauritius global business tax reform 2018
MUS·2018
match
1.3
financial deregulationrule of law
Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002
USA·2002
match
1.3
financial deregulationrule of law

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