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).
The 1977 open-economy package enacted under President J.R. Jayewardene's UNP government dismantled Sri Lanka's preceding import-substitution regime through tariff cuts, exchange-rate unification and devaluation, removal of import licensing, and partial decontrol of consumer goods. Coupled with the parallel EPZ Act it shifted Sri Lanka toward export-led growth, IMF-supported stabilisation, and reduced universal food-subsidy outlays in favor of targeted incentives.
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.