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Abstract: With growing climate change and global calls for sustainable developments, governments globally are obliging development pathways to capture environmental, social, and governance standards that assure sustainability. African countries are at different levels of development and different levels of consideration ESG in their development paths. However, empirical evidence on the impacts of different EST actions employed so far on growth is not readily available and is even absent for a group of countries with far different levels of development within the same continent like northern African countries and CEMAC countries. This study seeks to enrich the empirical literature by investigating the short-run and long-run impacts of ESG performance on economic growth of North African countries and CEMAC countries. The choice of these regions is to compare two sub-African regions with distinct growth patterns, North African countries are experiencing high economic growth rates while CEMAC countries are struggling to meet their growth objectives. Keywords: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), CEMAC, NORTH AFRICAN. Title: ESG performance and economic growth: a panel co-integration analysis of North African countries and CEMAC sub-regions Author: Guanhui Fu, Ait Laasri Otmane International Journal of Recent Research in Commerce Economics and Management (IJRRCEM) ISSN 2349-7807 Vol. 9, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022 Page No: 30-36 Paper Publications Website: www.paperpublications.org Published date: 19-April-2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6469967

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