What Is The Plurinational State Of Bolivia?

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Plurinational State of Bolivia Bolivia has a population of 10,969,649 and it is located in the heart of South America. Bolivia’s official languages are Spanish follow by thirty two dialects. Its political system is divided in executive, legislative and judicial branch. This country has been chosen due to the cultural and geographical uniqueness. In addition, Bolivia has the highest capital in the world. Bolivia has actually not been part of the Hofstede’s research since it does not have a branch of the IBM Corporation. Hoftede’s cultural dimensions are based on the power distance which is the degree less powerful members of society accept that power is distributed unequally ( Henderson,2016).Bolivia’s political system is centralized which

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