Dilson Funaro

Dilson Domingos Funaro (October 23, 1933 – April 12, 1989) was a Brazilian businessman and politician, owner of the toy company Indústria de Brinquedos Trol.

Coming from a wealthy family, he studied engineering at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, and while still at a young age joined CIBRAPE, an industrial concern specialized in plastics.

After serving in a number of posts in both industry and government over two-and-a-half decades, Funaro was appointed head of the Brazilian Development Bank in March 1985 at the request of President Sarney.

That August, Sarney promoted him to head the Finance Ministry, the first minister that the president personally appointed after inheriting his cabinet from late President-elect Tancredo Neves.

[4] When the plan proved unable to stem inflation, Funaro switched tactics and introduced what was dubbed "Plano Cruzado II" which undid many of the previous reforms as well as raised taxes to curb the public demand for goods that had been generated by the revoking of indexing.