Adeash - if you think that taking a bunch of 200 hour muppets from the other side of the world with absolutely zero IFR or multi engine experience, making them pay to fly out there, and charging them $200 for an assessment / $24000 for an utterly worthless type rating on a non-certified sh!t heap Chinese turboprop, at one of the most dangerous and poorly regarded airlines on earth, is "upping the standard", then I'd hate to see what you consider is "lowering the standard"
If they were serious about "upping the standard" they'd get some people with some total time and some proper experience in rough strip and tropical ops, there's plenty of experienced GA guys in Africa / Australia / Caribbean who'd fit the bill. Of course they might actually have to pay them a salary and pay their rating.
"Upping the standard " my @ss