| Aid tying and donor fragmentation S Knack, L Smets World Development 44, 63-76, 2013 | 89 | 2013 |
| Food aid and household food security in a conflict situation: Empirical evidence from Northern Uganda HA Tusiime, R Renard, L Smets Food Policy 43, 14-22, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| Putting your money where your mouth is: geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent H Öhler, M Negre, L Smets, R Massari, Ž Bogetić PLoS ONE 14 (6), 1-19, 2019 | 72 | 2019 |
| What determines the suspension of budget support? N Molenaers, A Gagiano, L Smets, S Dellepiane World development 75, 62-73, 2015 | 71 | 2015 |
| Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs L Smets, S Knack, N Molenaers The Review of International Organizations 8 (4), 447-476, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
| Economía creativa en América Latina y el Caribe: Mediciones y desafíos LIR Oliva Inter-American Development Bank, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy L Smets, S Knack The Journal of Development Studies 52 (1), 72-91, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Nurturing institutions for a resilient Caribbean D Beuermann, M Schwartz, JP Schmid, C Dippel, J Khadan, ... Inter-American Development Bank, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| Digital technologies for better justice: A toolkit for action A Cordella, F Contini Inter-American Development Bank, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public Sector Governance L Smets, S Knack Economic Development and Cultural Change 67 (1), 29-54, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| De prestaties van de Vlaamse sociale huisvestingsmaatschappijen meten en beoordelen S Winters, G van Bortel, W Van Dooren, L Smets Steunpunt Ruimte en Wonen; Leuven, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| Líderes para la gestión en seguridad ciudadana y justicia K Villa-Mar, V Vélez-Grajales, B Cedillo, A Restrepo, P Munguía Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Supporting Policy Reform from the Outside L Smets The World Bank Research Observer 35 (1), 19-43, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| Introducing a new data set: budget support suspensions as a sanctioning device: an overview from 1999 to 2014 N Molenaers, A Gagiano, L Smets Governance 30 (1), 143-152, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Public financial management, health financing and under-five mortality: a comparative empirical analysis M Piatti-Fünfkirchen, L Smets IDB Working Paper Series, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms A Philippopoulos MIT Press, 2016 | 12* | 2016 |
| COVID-19: The Caribbean crisis: Results from an online socioeconomic survey MA Garavito, D Beuermann, LG Álvarez, V Gauto, J Khadan, H Mooney, ... Inter-American Development Bank, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| Retooling development aid in the 21st Century: The importance of budget support S Fardoust, S Koeberle, M Piatti-Fünfkirchen, M Sundberg, L Smets Oxford University Press, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| From workfare to economic and sociopolitical stability? evidence from a randomized trial in Eastern Congo P Brandily, E Mvukiyehe, L Smets, P Van Der Windt, M Verpoorten The World Bank Economic Review 39 (3), 711-730, 2025 | 8* | 2025 |
| COVID-19: Estrategias de adaptación en la economía de plataformas J Madariaga, E Molina, G Rucci, L Ripani, C Vazquez < bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: Inter …, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
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