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).
Greater Colombo Economic Commission (GCEC) Act No. 4 of 1978 established Sri Lanka's first export processing zones at Katunayake and surrounding areas, granting tax holidays, duty-free imports of inputs, and streamlined approvals for export-oriented foreign investors. The Act was a centerpiece of the Jayewardene UNP government's open-economy turn, intended to attract garment and light-manufacturing FDI and shift the economy from import substitution toward export-led growth.
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.