1. Pre-Aid Traditions and Ideas and the Institutional Heritage; 2. Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance; 3. UN Fund for Economic Development; 4. First Steps Down the Road : What Can the Footprints Tell; 5. First Development Decade : An Instrument of Persuasion; 6. Second Development Decade; 7. United Nations Development Programme, 1966-1981; 8. World Food Programme, 1961-1981 : Surplus Food for Development and Relief; 9. 1960s and 1970s: Perspectives on Development; 10. Visions and Priorities for the 1990s : The United Nations Strategy for the Fourth Development Decade; 11. Revival of the Social and Human Dimensions of Development; 12. Evolving Priorities, Patterns, and Trends, 1982-2005; 13. Food Aid : From Development to Humanitarian Relief; 14. Long Road toward the Millennium Development Goals; 15. Contribution of the UN System to International Development Cooperation ; Appendix : Bird's-Eye View of ODA to Developing Countries and Multilateral Institutions.