01591cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005621 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451809206 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Union of the Comoros : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (68 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The Selected Issues paper for the Union of the Comoros describes an assessment of the external competitiveness. Comoros has been hard hit by negative terms-of-trade shocks that have weakened the external position. A trend decline in the world price of vanilla, its main export, has occurred parallel to unprecedented increases in international food and petroleum prices. Although export growth has slackened, imports have steadily grown driven by a surge in remittances and a steady real appreciation of the euro-pegged national currency. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2009/046 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2009/046/002.2009.issue-046-en.xml IMF e-Library