Journal of Social Science Studies ISSN 2329-9150 2021, Vol. 8, No. 1 http://jsss.macrothink.org 24 Leadership and Economic Development of Ghana David Kwasi Mensah Walden University, USA E-mail: kddmensah@gmail.com Received: April 2, 2021 Accepted: May 1, 2021 Published: May 2, 2021 doi: 10.5296/jsss.v8i1.18590 URL: https://doi.org/10.5296/jsss.v8i1.18590 Abstract The relationship on leadership quality and its impact on skewed economic development in Ghana have been investigated. This investigation has been carried out in Ghana and its neighbouring countries that attained independence around the same time, under similar pattern of political governance. A comparative analysis is used to differentiate between these countries economic policies and their leadership styles used. It reveals that Ghana remains static and underdeveloped for many years despite changes in leadership and political governance. Evidently, while at the time of their independence, Ghana’s per capital income in 1960 was higher than Nigeria, India and Egypt. Ghana’s development has been sluggish whilst the rest of the countries have accelerated at a faster rate with fantastic economic policies combined with good leadership skills. The way forward towards establishing a sustainable economic development in Ghana includes vision, goals and value of the nation, a strategy for achieving, managing change and national transition. Keywords: Leadership, Governance Economic development, Political governance Savings Education 1. Introduction 1.1 Leadership Leadership as a process where a person influences a team to achieve a goal. It includes attention to common goals, and increases the possibility that both leaders and followers work closely together for a common goal (Rost, 1991). Burns (1978) defined a transformational leader as ‘one who raises the followers’ level of consciousness about the importance and value of desired outcomes and methods of reaching those outcomes’ (p. 141). Strategic leaders have been able to transformed their countries’ economies from zero to advance stage. On the other hand, ordinary leaders with poor leadership and structural constraints have disappointed their countries woefully. Leadership design good policies to push forward