But even by the standards of development-speak, where hyperbolic promises and grand rhetorical gestures are the norm, some of those comments have left allies and opponents alike perplexed.
Most of that startling progress came in the 30 years between the mid-1960s and the Asian Financial Crisis of the mid-90s, an impossibly short timeframe by the standards of western development.
Panitch points to the Avatar 3D technicians who worked on Fox Star's Bollywood horror, Raaz 3. Another Fox local-language exec working in Russia refers to the tougher standards of script development put in place there.
A Premier League spokesman said: "There has been an ongoing discussion about raising the standards of youth development and progressing academy players but no definitive policy decision has been taken".
It was an incredibly generous package, even by the standards of economic development deals.
But what developers want to do at the intersection of La Cienega and Jefferson boulevards would be dramatic even by the standards of the development boom hitting the city.
With independence in 1966 came a focus on black Barbadian culture, and music like calypso, reggae and spouge, rather than the preoccupation with British standards of musical development.
Will the Olympics be harnessed to transform perceptions of the PRC from a producer of low/mid-priced commodities to a nation that practices international standards of product development?
It had an original release date of June 27, 2010, but it was postponed by two months, as the high standards of the development team got them behind the completion schedule.
27 Australia is a high-income country with one of the highest standards of health development worldwide.
