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$%B. Mahaman, A volume comparison theorem and number of ends for manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative Ricci curvature, Rev. Mat. Complut. 13 (2000), no. 2, 399–409.%$

In this paper we establish a volume comparison theorem for concentric metric balls at arbitrary point for manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative Ricci curvature, which will allow us to prove the finiteness of the number of ends.

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C20.