Growth in a Time of Debt, Replicated: A Transparent Re-examination of the Reinhart-Rogoff 90-Percent Debt Threshold

An independent, fully computational replication of Herndon, Ash and Pollin (2013/2014), the study that corrected Reinhart and Rogoff's (2010) claim that economic growth collapses once public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP. Working from the per-country statistics HAP published and from Reinhart and Rogoff's own publicly released country spreadsheets, this project rebuilds every cell of the HAP error-decomposition table from first principles in tested, open-source code. It recovers the corrected a