Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
Sri Lanka's Food Stamp Scheme, introduced in September 1979 under the Jayewardene UNP government, replaced the universal rice-subsidy ration with a means-tested coupon programme entitling households below an income threshold to vouchers redeemable for rice, flour, and sugar. The scheme was administered by the Department of Food and complemented by the post-1977 Open Economy liberalisation. The intended effect was to compress the regressive universal subsidy bill, target food relief to the poorest 50% of households, free fiscal space for export-led growth, and align social policy with the structural-adjustment direction of the Jayewardene reforms.
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.